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Captain Edward Hensch of Houston, Tex. was scheduled for a 2 p.m. take-off from Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airport on his second round to Berlin that day. He stopped in the operations room to collect his copilot, 1st Lieut. William Baker of Los Angeles. Baker was holding, somewhat awkwardly, a bunch of flowers he had received that morning from a grateful family at Tempelhof airdrome. The Germans are always turning up with flowers and the airmen are always embarrassed (but pleased too). More painful than the actual donation is the necessity of carrying the flowers into the operations...