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...month, airlift commanders expected colder weather to cut away the worst of the fogs. Meantime American C-54s had been transferred to British airlift bases to take advantage of the shorter run into Berlin. This week, as the fog lifted and airlift planes began full use of the new Tegel airstrip in the French sector of Berlin, Allied flyers lugged in a whopping 5,405 tons in one day. Said the Air Forces' Lieut. General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon: "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind about our ability to supply Berlin in the winter, or indefinitely...
...most powerful radio station in Berlin, 100-kilowatt Berlin-Tegel, broadcasts in German, has its studios in the British sector, its transmitter in the French sector, and its lines run through the American sector. But what comes out over the air is all decided upon by the Russians...
...Allied protests of monopoly, the Russians reply that a majority of the station's listeners are in their zone. The U.S. competition to Berlin-Tegel consists of one low-powered Berlin station, dedicated to jazz for G.I.s...
...white pattern of bursting anti-aircraft shells, flying through the heaviest barrage Berlin had yet thrown up. With parachute flares to light their targets, they splashed bombs on the Tempelhof railroad yards, the Moabit and Wilmersdorf power stations, an airplane-engine factory in suburban Spandau, a gas plant in Tegel. In the ruins of factories and apartment houses 25 people were killed, 60 injured, according to the Nazis...
Yesterday I heard the Field Marshal's impassioned speech to the munition workers at Tegel. ... At the end of the speech the workers sang Deutschland über Alles. To my astonishment I heard them sing the old, unchanged words: "Von der Etsch bis an den Belt!" How about that? The Etsch (called Adige by the Italians) is at present and has been for 20 years held by the countrymen of Mussolini, who a few months ago had completed his plans for driving out of the Adige territory (southern Tyrol) everybody who dared speak the German language. And the Belt...