Word: airlifting
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Back of the Kremlin talks was a question: How well would the airlift supply Berlin during the winter months...
...Anglo-U.S. strategists have planned their winter airlift on the basis of a 4,000-ton daily average. On a minimum basis, 1,400 tons of food and 2,000 tons of coal will sustain West Berlin. The coal will heat hospitals, prisons, courts, schools, and welfare establishments. If the 4,000-ton average is maintained, the extra 600 tons will consist of medical and welfare supplies, newsprint, and extra coal (for a few essential industries and emergency heat in private dwellings). Berliners will be colder than last winter and possibly colder than the winter before...
...cargo planes flew in more than 2,000 tons.* At Tempelhof, a C-54 winged in & out of the overcast with a load of coal, overshot the field, crashed a fence, burst into flame. The two U.S. flyers got out safely through an emergency hatch-leaving the airlift's death toll still at five...
...Russians had shown clear signs of interest in a four-power conference, and although they had said they would accept no "prior conditions," some preliminary deal might be patched up. The great and growing success of the airlift had made the Russians lose face, on top of other losses in the spring and early summer...
...press. In the first ten days of registration, only 19,000 Germans (out of 2,225,000) had signed up. When a U.S. cargo plane crashed in a city street, near Tempelhof, killing two U.S. airmen but harming no hair of a German head, the Red press denounced the airlift as a menace to German lives. The German answer was to hold a memorial service for the dead flyers...