Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STREET signs in the lobby of the TIME & LIFE Building on Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas point up the close ties Americans have with severed Berlin. They read: Platz der Luftbrücke (Airlift Place), Clayallee (named for General Lucius D. Clay), Washingtonplatz (for the first U.S. President). The signs, brought from West Berlin, point to an exhibit which opened last week in the TIME & LIFE Reception Center. Americans' heightened interest in Berlin today was evident at once in a flow of 150 to 200 persons visiting the exhibit each hour...
Beneath the mushroom shadow that hung over Berlin, the cold war's moves and countermoves continued. Last week President Kennedy announced that he was sending retired General Lucius Clay, commander of U.S. forces in Europe during the tense days of the 1948-49 airlift, back to Berlin as his personal representative. Berlin knew Clay as a clear-and tough minded man who would report the situation as he saw it without diplomatic sweetening. Cried West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt: "Berlin will welcome him like a homecoming...
...Instead, he formed a new National Patrice Lumumba Party and began orating against the U.N. ("hostile to the Congo"). Last week his soldiers, apparently feeling that it is open season on all Western whites, roughed up U.S. Consul Thomas A. Cassilly. All the U.N. could think of was to airlift 350 Ethiopian troops to Stanleyville to reinforce the U.N. force of 450 already there...
Tall, white-haired Tunner, 55, now a Virginia gentleman farmer, ran the Allied airlift over the hump between India and China in World War II, went on to mesh U.S., French and British aircraft into the effective lift that broke the Red blockade of Berlin, and after that to direct the Korean war air supply shuttle between Japan and Korea...
...Tunner's airlift required eight airfields in West Germany and three in Berlin, including famed Tempelhof, which was ringed by buildings. Tunner would use just three fields this time: at the West German end, the two closest to Berlin in the central air corridor, and in Berlin, unobstructed Tegel Airport in the French sector. Using these three fields would avoid the 5,000-ft. climb to clear mountains, cut the average distance nearly in half, permit the planes to flow toward Tegel at a mere 500 ft., returning in a wide northern loop to approach their home fields from...