WEST GERMANY: OPEN DAY AT UNITED STATES AIR FORCE BASE LEADS TO SMALL DEMONSTRATION

Record ID: 337468

  • Title: WEST GERMANY: OPEN DAY AT UNITED STATES AIR FORCE BASE LEADS TO SMALL DEMONSTRATION
  • Date: 8th September 1974
  • Summary: 1. MV Sign: Wiesbaden Air Base 0.03 2. GV and MV Demonstrators and police (4 shots) 0.26 3. GV Flags 0.29 4. GV PAN Crowd looking at aircraft 0.38 5. SV Two members of USAF seated on aircraft 0.43 6. GV and MV Children looking at missiles (2 shots) 0.51 7. GTV Aircraft and people 0.54 8. GROUND TO AIR Helicopter display (5 shots) 1.12 9. GV ZOOM TO LV US paratroopers display 1.30 10. GV and GROUND TO AIR Starfighters in display (3 shots) 1.47 Initials OS/1755 OS/1810 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd September 1974 13:00
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  • Location: WIESBADEN AIR FORCE BASE, NEAR FRANKFURT, WEST GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA8GQ1SQM54RB0O5QDKUULNUTMZ
  • Story Text: The United States Air Force held an "open day" at its base at Wiesbaden, near Frankfurt, on Sunday (8 September).

    About a hundred demonstrators gathered outside the base but were stopped from entering by Air Force and West German police.

    The police estimated that more than 100,000 people turned out to view the display of aircraft and weapons. They were treated to flying displays by, amongst others, Belgian helicopters and fighters and U.S. paratroopers.

    The day before the Air Force opened the gates of the base, the commander of the USAF 601st Tactical Control Wing issued a statement which welcome ed all people who believe in maintaining freedom through such defence groupings as the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. His statement continued: "Detractors of NATO are persona non grata on this base and will be asked to leave. Those that refuse to leave peaceably and insist on flaunting other political beliefs will be removed from the base".
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