Word: tempelhof
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...thick morning, the control tower at Tempelhof was hushed as operators tried for contact with a C-54, lost for an hour over the city. Finally the plane landed. "Here they got the fifth largest city in the world," muttered a relieved tower operator, "and they miss...
...Tempelhof Airport the occasional shiny C-54s and many battered C-47s landed at the daylight rate of one every three minutes. Scores of ten-ton trucks rolled out to meet them. One hundred and fifty G.I.s and German workers labored 24 hours a day to get them unloaded. In the orange and white control tower, 13 G.I.s worked around the clock, surrounded by Coke bottles, cigarette smoke, and the brassy chattering of radios. The chaotic chorus of American voices was tense but happy; America was in its element. "Give me an ETA* on EC 84 . . . That's flour...
...With added planes, however, and ideal weather conditions, it would not be impossible to lay down 2,000 tons of food a day on Berlin's Tempelhof and Gatow airfields. In July 1945, the U.S. Air Transport Command flew 71,000 tons of cargo over the Hump into China...
...minutes from Berlin's dead center is a slice of Long Island or California civilization-the American colony. This week the local baseball season got into full swing; Tempelhof airbase invited all American girls to the "Stateside Stomp" in the Skyrider Ballroom; everything from keel boats to canoes and kayaks is skimming the Wannsee's smooth, sunny waters. This is little America, APO 742-A, including bingo, jukeboxes, dog shows, fashion shows and horse shows...
...Tempelhof in Berlin, arrangements were made to seat 2,000 Jewish D.P.s. But when Yehudi showed up, he found only 600 in the audience. He demanded an investigation, learned that the camp paper at Dueppel Center had carried a long attack on him, signed by its editor, a man called Jonas of Lemberg...