Manned missiles Over the Baltic

摘要

FOR ABOUT THREE decades the slender lines of the F-104 were a common sight in the skies over Western Europe. Of all users of the 'Free World Defender' - as Lockheed dubbed its product at the beginning of the 1960s - the largest was the Federal Republic of Germany with 916 aircraft, of Which 168 went to the Marineflieger, the air arm of the Navy. Starfighters equipped two naval air wings, Marinefliegergeschwader (MFG) 1 and 2, at Jagel and Eggebek naval air stations in northern Germany. In September 1963, MFG 1 started replacing its Hawker Sea Hawks with the Starfighter; the first F-104 for MFG 2 arrived in March 1965.