Berlin Airlift

U.S. Navy-Air Force-Army
cooperation on the Berlin airlift is shown in this photograph made at Bremerhaven, hundreds of miles from the nearest western airlift
terminal. Aviation fuel for Air
Force planes flows through these tubes from a Navy tanker at
Germany's Army-run port.

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At Bremerhaven, Germany, an American ship unloads a shipment of frozen beef, most of which will be airlifted to Berlin. Cold-storage cars wait on rails, shown in upper right, ready to run the cargo south to butchers located near western Airlift terminals.

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Crates of condensed milk arrive at Bremerhaven, Germany, aboard a Danish ship. Under U.S. Army
supervision, double dock cranes
unload the entire shipment in a few hours, hoisting it into position
for immediate train
loading at dockside.

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