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Airbridge to Berlin
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"Airlift begins"
A light dusting of snow covers surplus US Army vehicles of all types at Wurttemberg in the winter of 1946. The soldiers who operated them had long since returned to the United States.
A miniature city is used to instruct military police in Germany on the situations likely to arise in various parts of a city, September 1946. After the war, Western forces were geared toward support and civil control
General Curtis LeMay
General Albert Wedemeyer
US air traffic controllers at the Berlin air Safety Center check and post flight progress strips indicating movement of American aircraft in and out of Tempelhof. The Soviet panel for their airfield at Schonefeld is at right and a corner of the British panel for Gatow airfield can be seen at left.
Peasants chatting over a brief lunch at Tempelhof.
Parachutes in hand, Berlin-bound pilots take a quick look at the morning paper before heading for their plane.
Jewish Passover food arriving in Berlin.
Berlin-bound cargo arrives on a Danish ship at the port of Bremerhaven.
Fresh milk being loaded on a C-47. Shipments of whole milk soon were dropped in favor of more weight efficient condensed milk.
C-47 transport aircraft, containing 190 sacks of flour each, arrive at Tempelhof, 2 July 1948. A pair of B-17 weather aircraft can be seen at the far side of the airfield along with a lone C-54 at extreme right.
Early morning airlift operations at Tempelhof, 22 August 1948. Note the trio of aircraft parked beneath the overhang of the airport structure.
Pierced steel planking for a new runway at Tempelhof arrives aboard a C-47.
A pilot's eye view of Tempelhof shortly before the blockade. Many of the large buildings surrounding the airport were destroyed by Allied bombing during the war. Unfortunately for the aircrew who later ran the blockade, the leveled buildings were not on the flight paths to the runways
A C-54 flies over a graveyard and perilously close to some apartments buildings while making its landing approach at Tempelhof.
Survivors of a crash in the Soviet Zone, March 1949.
While brake failure almost led the C-54 to smash into apartment buildings at the end of the runway in August.
Remains of a Navy C-54 after a crash landing on the night of November 15, 1948.
Lieutenant Donald W. Measley of Hampton, New Jersey is presented with a bouquet of flowers by nine-year-old Suzanna Joks of Berlin.
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A crowd of Berliners gather to purchase stolen East Zone coupons to place on their devalued Reichsmarks.
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