General Vandenberg was also the nephew of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, one of the principal backers of the Marshall Plan
Tractor being unloaded from one of the five C-82 aircraft taking part in the airlift.
Vittles aircrews at Tempelhof's mobile snack bar which rolled up to aircraft as soon as they taxied to a halt.
German cement workers laying Tegel Airfield's runway, 17 August 1948.
C-54 transport aircraft were already beginning to crowd out the smaller, twin-engine C-47's when the photo below was taken at Rhein-Main Air Base, outside Frankfurt, on 26 July 1948.
Empty asphalt barrels line the area adjacent to the 5500-foot runway at Tegel Air-field in the French Sector.
Vehicle barrier being erected in Potsdamer Platz, 25 August 1948.
Grading a future taxiway to an adjoining apron, 28 September
Lord Mayor Louise Schroeder requesting that demonstrators leave the 23 June 1948 City Council meeting. This was the first of many occasions that communist demonstrators disrupted council proceedings. City Council Chairman, Otto Suhr is at Schroeder's left and representatives of the occupation forces are seted along the wall.
The City Council meeting at the Berlin Technical University in the British Sector, 6 September 1948. Carl Huber Schwennicke of the LPD is at the podium, Otto Suhr is seated at the center of the table to his right. Ernst Reuter is sitting at the far right in a light grey suit and bow tie with Ferdinand Friedensburg at his right.
The breakup of the 26 August City Council meeting.
