Word: rhein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concert hall, François-Poncet became so enraged in Berlin that McCloy left, flew back to Paris to see François-Poncet's boss, Premier Henri Queuille. Late getting back to Germany, McCloy landed at Wiesbaden, 45 minutes closer to the Petersberg than Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airfield, and raced to a new High Commission meeting. It lasted 19 hours, from 11 one morning until 6 the next...
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...
...Walrus. From the U.S. airports Rhein-Main and Wiesbaden the planes head for Darmstadt. Then they turn northeast for Aschaffenburg and then pick up the Fulda radio range. After Fulda they can fly either on the northeast leg of the Fulda radio range or the southwest Leg of the Tempelhof range. In the Russian zone, just past Eisenach, Hensch's plane flew over one of the Red army training grounds. There were tank tracks through the fields and vehicles lined up next to the forest. Said Hensch: "I'd like to come over here with 20,000 pounds...
...great 17th Century organ, contorted into weird sausage shapes; rusting German machine guns with ammunition belts still attached. On the dark walls are crude sketches of female figures traced by homesick German soldiers, and a Rhenish landscape with the caption Oh, du wun-derschöner Deutscher Rhein (Oh, you beautiful German Rhine...
...freight-handlers at Frankfurt Rhein-Main airport, it was just another box-a little on the heavy side, to be sure, but nothing out of the ordinary. They heaved it onto a hand-truck and dumped it in the storeroom. Shortly after midnight, strange things began to happen. A freight-handler saw the box move. Its lid lifted slowly and startled eyes glinted in the gloom. American Overseas Airlines Official William Waring investigated. "I opened the box," he told reporters later, "and saw a pair of eyes and some hair. Then she stepped out-no shirt...