Posted on 06/23/2008 6:10:09 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
It’s been reported that even today there are some C-47’s that have coal dust in their scuppers (for you seafaring folks) ...
As a navy friend said: “There are more planes at the bottom of the ocean than there are subs in the air”
But was Michelle proud of us standing up to the bully? Or should we have talked while people and babies stared?
stared = starved
The Berlin airlift was a sign of weakness not strength.
A Great Book about all the behind the scenes happening Armegeddon.. I rememeber they were getting more than one Plane taking off and Landing evry Minute or less it was the Birth of the USA superior advantage in Militay Logistics!
I liked the account of blowing up that radio tower that was sticking up in the flight path of the one of the air strips.
But I read a liberal’s comments the other day that we only fed our soldiers and that the airlift was all propaganda.
I hate liberals.
The Food kept Berlin alive... The Candy Drops for the Kids were the Pyschological breakthrough to The German Hearts! Even Pope Benedict Mentioned it.. how amazed that the USA Vangushed Germany put Came Back to resurect it!
The airlift actually owes much of its success to the folks who designed and ran the air supply route from India to China.
Not Canada’s finest moment, though. Terrified? Bah!
The French did that when they constructed the airstrip in their zone.
Didn’t see that Part of it in the Book..Thanks
Here:
http://www.spiritoffreedom.org/airlift.html
“There was an obstacle in the way on the approach to Tegel, however. A Soviet controlled radio tower caused problems with its proximity to the airfield. Pleas to remove it went unheard. Finally, on November 20, French General Jean Ganeval made a decision. If they would not take it down, he would simply blow it up. So, on December 16, the dynamite was used. The tower fell, and the obstacle was gone.”
It’s my recollection that the studios were in the Russian zone and under Russian control, but that the towers were in the French zone. Since the American and British zones already had airports (as did the Soviet) the new airport was built in the French zone, leading to the tower issue.
Awesome..
Wait, that was three years after we got rid of Hitler. I thought it was “Mission Accomplished” in 1945, what were we still doing in Germany. QUAGMIRE!!!!
Well, that “occupied” country had the same religion, educational level, culture, amd heritage as its “occupiers”.
Can you say the same about Iraq?
Not the same then, is it?
A lot of the success has to do with how the airspace to Berlin was organized. I was an air traffic controller in Berlin from ‘84-’88. There were 3 corridors into Berlin. During the Airlift all inbound aircraft used the southern and northern corridors. All outbound aircraft used the center corridor. Any aircraft that could not land because of mechanical problems or weather would execute a missed approach and fly out the center corridor. These aircraft would not land in Berlin but would divert back to Germany to be sent again at a later time.
Did Japan have the same culture? Their religion was just as nutty as Islam. They worshipped an ordinary man as God. We managed to turn them around.
Germany and Japan also consisted, mostly, of a single ethnic group.
Contrast that with Iraq, which is a shotgun marriage of three hostile, incompatible groups - hardly the same.
Post WWII, Japan also enthusiastically adopted Western culture, values, even our legal system. Again, can you say the same about Iraq?
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