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Berlin Airlift
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RAF Dakotas are shown parked on the unloading ramp at Tegel, new Airlift Terminal in the French Sector of Berlin, as the field was opened for airlift
operations on 18 November. In the background are new
administration building still
under construction.
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Record Group 342 -G 23-69316 AC
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A ground crewman assists
pilots in parking the first plane to land at Tegel, the new Airlift Terminal in the French Sector of Berlin, after the field was opened for
airlift operations on 18
November. (1948) The field is being used primarily as a terminal for RAF Dakotas, leaving the other Terminals at Tempelhof and Gatow for the lager, four-engine
transports.
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Record Group 342 -G 23-69318 AC
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Record Group 342 -G 23-69641 AC
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These U. S. Air Force airmen, with an average 134 round-trips to
Berlin apiece, marked the last day of 1948 with the 100,000th airlift flight into the blockaded city by the U. S. & British Air Forces. Shown at Tegel airfield in Berlin's French Sector, the crew had left the British Zone's western terminal at Fassberg only an hour before . Left to right: Capt. Gene M. Patton of Harlington, Texas, Staff Sergeant Richard C. Hosnur of New Haven, Connecticut, and 1st Lt. Robert W.
McGuire of Cliftons Forge, Virginia.
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