Word: hensch
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Like any suburban commuter, Hensch found his wife waiting in a car by the field. He gave her the flowers, the porcelain snail, the rat's fur walrus and the note. She translated it haltingly. It said: "On the 100th day of the blockade God lives with you flyers. Health, happiness and skill for all of you and a quick return to the old days, and the joyous end of the blockade...
...Baker, with nothing to do, took a box from the ledge above the instrument panel. He unwrapped it-more presents from grateful Germans: a little porcelain snail, some flowers, and a toy walrus made out of rat's fur. There was a note addressed: An unseren Blokade Flieger. Hensch could not read it, but he said: "Wait till my wife gets ahold of that. She'll start sending them food packages. She's always sending these Germans presents...
Fifteen minutes out of Berlin we passed a big Russian airfield. Did the Russians bother them much? "They come up and take a look at you," said Hensch, "and maybe do a couple of slow rolls to show off like any fighter pilot, but they don't mean any harm...
What the Russians Sent. Hensch's plane came over the crumpled heart of Berlin to circle back for its landing under the careful coaching of G.C.A., the radar control for helping planes on to the ground when weather closes in. (Even on good days G.C.A. stays in action to keep the operators and the pilots in practice...
...Hensch and Baker walked around the plane to look at a spot where they had collided with a bird above the clouds. They found no scar. Baker walked over to make his routine report to intelligence officers. Hensch called after him: "Better tell them the Russians sent a bird after...