Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Air Force celebrated its first birthday as an independent arm of equal status with the Army & Navy. It flew bombers nonstop to the U.S. from Japan and Germany. It set a new speed record. And in Germany it demonstrated what the airlift could do when it really turned on the heat...
...noon the loudspeakers at Frankfurt's field blared out the official score: 652 flights had carried 5,582.7 tons of coal. It was a new airlift record-by 154 flights and 1,652.4 tons.* Said Airman Second Class Reuel McCafferty, who did five shuttle trips: "If the Russkies ain't convinced by now, I guess they never will...
...Boost in Prestige. The Berlin airlift had proved itself a magnificent technical achievement; it had also become an effective propaganda force for the U.S. One thing it had lifted in the 13 weeks of the Berlin blockade was U.S. prestige...
...exciting operation probably pack less coal into Berlin in one day than can be carried in one barge on the Rhine. It is painful to watch German workmen pour the small lumps into scales and weigh them out to the precise 110 pounds. To an American watching the airlift there is a sense of both degradation and satisfaction. But however momentary your anger at this unnatural and uneconomic thing, you get an abiding satisfaction that we are able...
...same period, British planes toted 1,405.3 tons of food and other supplies in 244 flights-a British airlift record...