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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...
...ration from each citizen. In the Ruhr, German authorities ordered 100,000 tons of coal, which had been earmarked for Ruhr homes, to be flown to Berlin instead. "We weren't at all sure before that you were determined to stay in Berlin," said a Frankfurt shopkeeper. "When you started these endless supply planes we knew you meant business...
...From General Lucius Clay down, the Americans in Berlin are calm. A few American families fly their sets of silver and their Steinway pianos to Frankfurt in the U.S. zone, but there is not the shadow of a panic nor any flight of dependents, but an impressive community awareness of what it is all about. We have only 4,000 soldiers in Berlin, but their morale is topnotch, and many are spoiling for a fight. They are tired of feeling pushed around...
Night after night in Frankfurt, U.S. Army trucks had been backing up to the Reichsbank, then driving off with loads of heavy wooden cases cryptically marked "Clay" and "Bird Dog." Officially, what was in the cases was a secret. Said one G.I. truckman to another after a week of it: "They can't fool me. Know what we're carrying in them boxes? Ammunition for the Israelites!" His companion replied: "It's ammo all right, but something tells me it's going to the A-rabs...
...proposal to enlist 25,000 selected D.P.s in the U.S. Army called for no Legion, but for enlistment in regular Army organizations. It did provide for citizenship after five years, and it brought a new flood of applications to U.S. embassies from Copenhagen to Rome. Said a Frankfurt student: "Deutschland ist kaputt. I'll take any chance to get out." In Rome, mechanics, priests, ex-soldiers tried to join up. Beetle-browed, thickset Luigi Fortunati stated bluntly: "I don't have a job and don't see any opportunity ahead. I want to become an American...