The German air force received its third fighter bomber squadron, as high-ranking German and American officers attended the commissioning ceremonies. Sony inspecting the ranks of the new squadron, which consists of 50 planes of the F-84-F Thunder Streak type, are (left to right) Lieutenant Colonel Steingross, Commandant of the Lechfield airbase; General Hans-Joachim Huth, chief of Germany's southern air group; General Josef Kammhuber, German air force Inspector General; General Herbert Thatcher, chief of the US advisory group in Bonn; and General Frank Everest, Commanding Officer, US air force in Europe. 23rd of July 1958