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...next month, airlift commanders expected colder weather to cut away the worst of the fogs. Meantime American C-54s had been transferred to British airlift bases to take advantage of the shorter run into Berlin. This week, as the fog lifted and airlift planes began full use of the new Tegel airstrip in the French sector of Berlin, Allied flyers lugged in a whopping 5,405 tons in one day. Said the Air Forces' Lieut. General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon: "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind about our ability to supply Berlin in the winter...
...almost unbelievable recovery." The airlift into beleaguered Berlin, he said, now carried 5,000 tons of food and fuel a day during good weather and 3,000 "under very bad conditions." This would be enough to keep Berlin supplied through the winter; besides, he had wangled 66 additional C-54s for the airlift (see Armed Forces...
...been cold and rainy, but it had been followed by a glorious golden autumn. On the freshly harvested fields, which had yielded a bumper crop, children launched their kites into the brisk wind; it seemed, sometimes, as though the gaily colored Drachen rode high enough to touch the C-54s which droned overhead in their ceaseless shuttle to Berlin...
...missing no bets. In a deal with the airlines, it offered temporary jobs in the Berlin airlift to commercial pilots laid off during the slack winter season. It expected 100 to 200 experienced C-54 pilots to accept. It was also dickering for the return of 40 C-54s leased to the airlines...
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...