European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 air Force photo the four engine with a capacity of 10 was the american Workhorse of the at its delivered More than tons a month to the Airlift from Page 8 blanketed the War ravaged City so thickly that even the essential flights were can the Slack was made up on the better flying but the Airlift was not without Cost in terms of human seventy seven names Are inscribed on the base of the Airlift me Morial at Tempelhof Berlin was in shambles during those Post War some sections of the notably the wide boulevards of the Kud amm shopping were in fair said but away from the Kur Fuersten Damm were Block after Block of to deliver the hundreds of thousands of tons of food and the americans relied on two workhorses the c47 and the the capable of carrying three tons per was gradually replaced by the c which had a 10ton the average meal for a Berliner was aus but at least there was Elizabeth lived under an aircraft approach pattern to Tempelhof she remembers the constant As Well As the plane that crashed several away from her Grossert had three and a fourth was on the her As were Many was unemployed after being re leased from a prisoners War Many people picked greens from Parks and Forest areas to boil As a spinach Grossert the bombed out buildings next door provided both firewood and scrap the Wood augmented the 25 pounds of Coal issued to her the scrap was sold to get hard currency for items available on the Black she Black marketeers could be found doing business behind Many of the Accord ing to Krasomil remembers the Center of the Black Market flourishing at the Bohnhof am zoo near the Middle of the group of Black marketeers waiting to strike bargains in return for cigarettes provided one of the More interesting sights of the said american cigarettes were sort of the currency of the be concerning the key players of the 37 year old Grossert remembered the american Lucius with Clay was the most important she daily life was but we could walk around freely and could shop where we she the main thing was that the family stayed aware of assurances Given by the West Ern allies to the berliners that there was enough food stocked to last 30 the russians announced nearly one month after the blockade began that they would provide food for All of but that food would Only be distributed in the Section of the City controlled by the Berlin was still an open City in those the Wall would come much a common Means of applying pressure in those Days was to require factory workers living in West Berlin but working in East Berlin to Register with the Eastern authorities in return for fresh according to a Rand study of the blockade done in but the West berliners did not give it was the existence of provisional East and West Berlin governments and the cur Rency Reform announced by the Western allies that formed much of the Complex background that led to the the russians began slowing traffic coming into Western sectors about the time the currency reforms were announced on june 19 by the Western in their denouncement of the currency the russians declared All of Berlin to be under their four Days after that Ber liners awoke to news that two currencies West and East German Marks be honoured in the the next Day the Borders were closed and the blockade the Tempelhof control Tower directed Airlift planes to landings at the rate of one every three minutes around the