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...noon sharp one day this week a lumbering C-82, also known as the "Flying Boxcar," flew into Berlin's Tempelhof airfield, carrying five tons of steel wool and textiles. The American crew had some coffee, got a weather briefing for the return flight to Wiesbaden. Exactly a year before, the first wave of C-47s ("Gooney birds," to U.S. airmen) .had flown a cargo of milk, flour and medicine into Tempelhof. Since then, in 235,314 flights, the airlift had carried 1,943,655.9 tons of supplies into besieged Berlin...
...Wiesbaden, Laud Hesse...
During my recent tour of duty as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Department I spent about 15 months in Wiesbaden, where Miss Rosenberger was my secretary. Orphaned by the war, she fled Breslau before the Russians and made her way on bicycle and afoot to Wiesbaden where, in 1945, she went to work for the Americans. There she is today, a DP among her own people...
First Sale. Last week in Frankfurt the low comedy was taken seriously. On the block went the first Farben unit, the Kalle plant at Wiesbaden, reportedly valued at $6,000,000. It employs 2,200 and produces Cellophane, photographic papers and chemicals. The Military Government wanted to offer some 80% of the stock for sale to Germans, while 20% would be set aside for the foreigners who already owned an interest in Farben. The Military Government also announced that part of another great industrial empire, the Robert Bosch electrical equipment combine, was to be sold. It looked as if "something...
...Western planes, complained bitterly : "You move around so fast I can't keep my records straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail and get aboard. We're in a hurry...