View out of flying Rosinenbomber onto Tempelhof Central Airport, Berlin. This 1944 DC-3 is one of the original air lift planes.
View out of flying Rosinenbomber onto Tempelhof Central Airport, Berlin. This 1944 DC-3 is one of the original planes to take part in the Berlin air lift 1948-49. It was restored and is now used for local tourist flights over Berlin. Berlin Tempelhof 2005. HGW DE054455 RIGHTS PROTECTION AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. --- The Berlin Food-drop, one of the first major crises of the Cold War. On June 24, 1948 the Russians officially blockaded all rail, road and waterway traffic into Berlin. It was Stalin’s intention to strangle the city into submission. Two days after Stalin’s blockade began, Allied aircraft began flying supplies into the city. On June 26, 1948 the Berlin Airlift - die Luftbrücke (air bridge) in German - began operation. Everything the Berliners needed to survive -from groceries to gasoline - would come to them only by air until the end of September 1949. During those months a or British plane landed every few minutes at Berlin’s central Tempelhof airfield and another airport that had been built just for the airlift (today’s Tegel, Berlin’s main airport). Most of the supply flights were made by tiny C-47s (DC-3s), nicknamed Rosinenbomber ("raisin bombers") by the local population. The big planes were four-prop C-54s (DC-6s). Over two million tons of goods were flown into Berlin in a huge logistical operation under the command of the American General Lucius D. Clay. A veteran DC-4 aircraft stands at the edge of Tempelhof Airport today as a silent witness to the events of 1948-49.
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