Safety of airlift flights in the Berlin corridors depends
heavily on the weather reports being analyzed by the weather airmen at Oberpfaffenhofen Air Force Depot, Germany. Oberpfaffenhofen is the home base for a squadron of B-17s
patrolling the Berlin corridors to determine best flying altitudes for planes of the
Combined Airlift Task Force and furnish complete weather data in the corridors . Left to right: Private First Class Robert W. Manning of Eagarville,
Illinois; and Corporal William H. Kleckner of
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Looking for weather areas in the Berlin airlift corridors, this B-17 crew is briefed before taking off on a six-hour patrol of the aerial corridors. The Report, radioed every 20 minutes, will help officers of the Combined Airlift Task Force determine the best altitudes for U.S. and British planes flying to and from Berlin. Captain Albert Tone of Muskogee, Oklahoma, weather officer at Oberpfaffenhofen Air Force Depot (center) briefs the
