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Airbridge to Berlin
Photos from
"Operation 'Vittles' Gets Organized"
General Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Vittles aircrews at Tempelhof's mobile snack bar which rolled up to aircraft as soon as they taxied to a halt.
C-54 transport aircraft were already beginning to crowd out the smaller, twin-engine C-47s when the photo below was taken at Rhein Main Air Base, outside Frankfurt, on 26 July 1948.
German cement workers laying Tegel Airfield's runway, 17 August 1948.
Tractor being unloaded from one of the five C-82 aircraft taking part in the airlift.
Grading a future taxiway to an adjoining apron, 28 September.
Empty asphalt barrels line the area adjacent to the 5500-foot runway at Tegel Airfield in the French Sector. The barrels pictured are part of the 10,000 barrels flown in by Vittles aircraft.
Thousands of tires, checked constantly for deterioration, were kept in a state of readiness at Rhein-Main Air Base for use on the Skymaster flying round-the-clock into blockaded Berlin.
The line of maintenance docks during night crew operations at the Oberpfaffenhofen Air Force Depot.
The Wash Dock installation at Oberpfaffenhofen Air Force Depot, 7 September 1949. The wash Docks were used in the first stages of 200 hour inspection of C-54s engaged in the airlift.
Hundreds of miles from the nearest western airlift terminal, aviation fuel for Air Force planes flows through tubes from a Navy tanker at the Army-run port of Bremerhaven.
Vehicle barrier being erected in Potsdamer Platz, 24 August 1948.
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 seated along the wall
The breakup of the 26 August City Council meeting.
Communist demonstrators in front of the New City Hall in the Soviet Sector of the city, 26 August 1948. The demonstrator's signs demand a uniform currency and administration, the withdrawal of occupation forces from Berlin and Germany, the end of "bankrupt Magistrate," and a unified Germany.
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.
Otto Suhr at a special meeting of the Magistrate, 8 September.
Ernst Teuter addressing up to 300,000 Berliners outside the Reichstag after the repeated disruption of City Council meetings in the Soviet Sector, 9 September 1948. Franz Neumann (Partially Obscured) and Otto Suhr are standing behind Reuter.
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