corridors is shown to 1st . Kenneth I. Senter of Los Angeles, (second form right) before the B-17 pilot takes off from Oberpfaffenhofen Air Force
Depot to make a six-hour weather
patrol. Reports radioed from his plane at 20 minute intervals will determine best flying altitudes for planes of the Berlin airlift and give up-to-the-minute reports to aircraft controllers. The six-plane B-17 weather squadron is a round-the-clock patrol for planes of the
Combined Airlift Task Force.
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Pointing to dents in the wing of a B-17 airlift weather plane, First 1st Lt. John P. Boukus, maintenance officer of the weather squadron,
describes a common "occupational affliction" of these special-mission planes. The dents are made by chunks of ice thrown for
propellers during flight through the Berlin corridors. Operating from Oberpfaffenhofen Air Force Depot near Munich, Germany the 7169th Weather
Reconnaissance Squadron, radios weather data to the airlift controllers
