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Lion, Tiger, Bear | 283 Luftwaffes best pilots, he had been pilot and cameraman on Schafers 1938 India and Tibet expedition. They laughed and carried on like schoolboys, drinking glass after glass much to the visible annoyance of the sober and fierce Poppel, who then rudely shut them up while they came to attention. Poppel […]

22 In Golfs name! You? You! cried Porsche. Soldiers grabbed Bea at gunpoint. Leave off! Were friends I tell you, old friends, like Napoleon and Wellington. Poppel yelled: What the hells going on here? Doubled over, Schafer laughed, then Gerlach, then others. Porsche wiped his mouth. Let go of herI said let go! I know

286 | John W. Warner IV never knew, the people, the ordinary walk, and.. .111 always remember that. Porsche looked to the group of SS and German contractors inspecting the new portable crane, his heart sinking. He lowered his voice. The SS? Yes, I…know.Theyve given us many thousands of starved Russian prisoners to work the

Lion, Tiger, Bear | 287 Rodmann. Berlin University, theoretical physics, newly drummed into the Vril Works. Bernie thrust out his hand again. Herr Gerlach, Bernie Rodgers. All three of us are honored to meet you, and we are passionate enthusiasts of your Unified Field Theory and its various applications. He shook it. Huh? Ja-ja. Lets

288 | John W. Warner IV stairway. Crates were loaded into a large cargo bay. At die bow, the many framed windows made the cockpit area almost 360 degrees transparent, a half-sphere of plexiglass. Four equidistant opaque hemispheres were built into the fuselage just aft the cockpit at the six, nine, twelve, and three oclock

Lion, Tiger, Bear | 289 torpedo ready for action. Buck Rodgers fantasy come alive, said Alice. Blau-35 alloy. The whole things made of it! exclaimed Bea. Just like bloody ol Anton. And faster than your precious stolen Heinkel, an amusing tale I might add. Well played, said Schafer. The Bear can presently achieve 880 kph

290 | John W. Warner IV Schafer paused at the ships forward stairway, a marvel of thin-tube cleverness in its own right. You can use the marvelously-engineered one inside on our tour, theyre pumping out the sewage tanks now. He pointed to a tanker truck that had a hose attached to the underside. AU the

Lion, Tiger, Bear | 291 facilities. An organizational genius, really. This is but one of his grandiose projects in the works, a difficult challenge for him and his team, his other projects are highly classified. Rises fast in the ranks, soon to be a general no doubt. He can literally move mountains. Leaves at five

292 | John W. Warner IV have used a gigantic free-energy tunnel-boring machine of some sort Im told by a mining engineer, immense heat. ‘The stone walls were melted into anthracite, a watertight and strong casing three meters thick. We found this cavern by accident on our first expedition to the fort in late 39

Lion, Tiger, Bear |-293 electromagnetism floating around. Nice solution, mused Bernie, examining it. They didnt miss a trick. Alice wandered up to a large piece of shiny metallic equipment attached to the port wall bang up to the ceiling, the likes of which shed never seen before. Glowing a reddish-gold, it didnt seem to belong.