Word: 54s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several plans were under way to increase cargo volume: 1) an eventual total of 250 C-54s (capacity ten tons) on the U.S. run: 2) transfer of the U.S. loading point from Frankfurt to Fassberg, in the British zone, shortening the distance to Berlin; 3) more landing space in Berlin...
...then came some welcome news. The conferees had agreed that the Allied airlift to Berlin could be stepped up to 4,500 tons a day by next fall. A new airport would be constructed in Berlin to handle additional C-54s. The planes could be supplied without serious strain on either the Air Force or its military transport service...
...Tempelhof Airport the occasional shiny C-54s and many battered C-47s landed at the daylight rate of one every three minutes. Scores of ten-ton trucks rolled out to meet them. One hundred and fifty G.I.s and German workers labored 24 hours a day to get them unloaded. In the orange and white control tower, 13 G.I.s worked around the clock, surrounded by Coke bottles, cigarette smoke, and the brassy chattering of radios. The chaotic chorus of American voices was tense but happy; America was in its element. "Give me an ETA* on EC 84 . . . That's flour...
General Clay (his wife reported) "was happy as a kid" when he got reports from Washington last week that more C-54s were on their way to Berlin from Alaska and the Caribbean...
...Develop Revolution." There was evidence that the U.S. was making up its mind. In recent days the Athens airport had resembled Washington's Boiling Field. White-starred C-54s of the Air Transport Command brought a stream of tight-lipped generals and high-ranking brass of the Air Force and Marine Corps, who hurried off to conferences and staff consultations. Some bounced in jeeps along the cratered, axle-snapping roads of Macedonia and Thrace, to inspect Greek Army units. Offshore, units of COMNAVMED, including the carrier Leyte, prowled around the Aegean islands...