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Airbridge to Berlin
Photos from
"Winter Campaign"
Airlift C-54's being unladed at Tempelhof after the heaviest snowfall of the winter blanketed the airport in white on 1 March 1949. High winds, poor visibility, and icing conditions near ground level forced a temporary cessation of operations during the night, but clearing skies the following day brought tonnages to the near normal level.
Awaiting their turn to take off for Berlin, US Air Force C-54s will land at Gatow in the British Sector of Berlin just one hour from their British Zone airlift terminat at Fassberg.
British and American personnel at Fassberg's traffic control center.
A British Army enlisted man directs the parking of a coal truck as German laborers prepare to load a shipment of coal aboard a C-54 at Fassberg.
Airlift Bases -Winter, 1948-1949
A sample of the kind of weather that plagued flight operations throughout the airlift.
Radio operators on the B-17 weather patrols of the airlift corridors reported on flight conditions every 20 minutes from pre-determined check points.
Airlift pilots receiving weather information from a briefing jeep at Tempelhof.
A weather officer at Oberpfaffenhofen Air Force Depot briefs the crew of a B-17 before its six-hour patrol of the corridors.
Air installations personnel clear taxiways at Tempelhof after a 19 March snowstorm.
C-54s at Wiesbaden stand out against a background of snow, 2 March 1949.
The first C-54 to arrive at Tegel Airfield lands during a light rain, 5 November 1948.
The dedication of Tegel Airfield, 1 December 1948. General Jean Ganeval, who ordered the demolition of Radio Berlin's broadcast tower, is saluting at front row left.
While waiting for their block, pilots relax in the pilots lounge at Wiesbaden.
During yet another monotonous flight to Berlin, the radio operator aboard a C-54 describes interference he's receiving as the engineer (seated behind the pilots) wonders aloud about a light outside the right window.
Project Sleighbells brought Christmas gifts from dependents of Vittles fliers from all parts of the world to German. In the foreground are some of the mail bags to be loaded and to the extreme left can be seen some of the C-74 crew members. At the extreme right are crew members of a plane which had just arrived from Alaska bringing in gifts for the project. The women and children are dependents of Vittles personnel from Brookley Air Force Base and Mobile, Alabama.
Air Force personnel from Fassberg RAF Station are shown aboard the Rotation Special
The office complex of Soviet controlled Radio Berlin.
RIAS announcer doing a remote broadcast from Potsdamer Platz, 28 August 1948.
Ernst Reuter casts his ballot during the city elections, 5 December.
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