European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Timing was needed to coordinate unloading and Takeoff of one plane every three minutes. Milk was one of Many Staple items flown by the Airlift. A. I a i few of . Navy plane celebrates end of the blockade. First Convoy Heads for Berlin on May 12, 1948, As blockade is lifted. Heroes of the berliners but them was More popular than a. Halverson the chocolate personal funds Halverson and pilots fashioned Little Para out of handkerchiefs tied Candy Iem and dropped them Over ls0n fettle vittles As . Was an instant Suc the kids. Fare the children the hardship of is besieged City the allies1 another Airlift operation Stork Acua Many of them to fam. Y for the to duration a the Western allies Hada currency Reform in a w-?7 and West Berlin and Vii in economic counter in unit u Trade from the Westaw Junist Grin and. It was certain Clay wrote later that our counter blockade would be More harmful to East Germany than lowest Germany. East Germany lacked cooking Coal and steel and could no obtain these materials from behind the Iron curtain. West Germany included in the mar shall plan had Access to the much greater Industrial production of the Western world. I expected that a re Vived Western Economy would eventually Force the lifting of the blockade. We were certain in the Spring of1949 that this pressure was being the general was right. Rumours Werea pfennig a dozen in the Spring of 1949, but on May 4 came the Long anticipate news the blockade would be lifted. The night of May 11, the last hours of the blockade was like a grand open ing night in Berlin wrote Curt Riess in his Berlin who was anybody drove out to the British american checkpoint on the autobahn the Frontier station of blockaded Berlin. The scene was brightly illuminated by All the headlights. Everybody was there actresses Beauty Queens Box ers six Day bicycle racers famous writers artists. In fact people actually danced on the Clay had done his duty in the divided City. Three Days after the Block Ade ended his recall came through. On May 14, 1949, he addressed Heberlin municipal Council in a Farewell speech expressing his admiration forthe courage of the people of Berlin which had regained for them the re Spect of the free people of the afterwards he and lord mayor Ernst Router Rode through the City to the cheers of Airlift had achieved its purpose but it went on through the summer to build up the City s emergency stocks in the event the soviets lowered the Boom again the next vittles ended officially on sept. 30, 1949, after hauling in 2,231,600tons of supplies in 275,544 flights. On july 10, 1951, the City unveiled its Airlift memorial on the new Luft Bruecke Platz just outside base. A three pronged curved con Crete Block symbolizes the three Allied Powers the United states Britain and France who participated in the lift Aswell As the three air corridors. At its base Are carved the names of the 75 men who gave their lives in the line of duty39 British fliers 31 Ameri cans and five germans. Tinier had come from the unite states to attend the ceremony. The men who died i
