Great post Kathy!
SALUTE...!! LTG Tunner!!
Thanks to StarCMC for the great series on The Berlin Airlift. She has family and church programs for a couple weeks.
I was privileged to be part of a KC-10 crew that flew in to an air show in 1987 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the “Berlin Airlift.” This was when the Berlin wall and iron curtain were still up and deadly. The bell of the ball was the C-5A, because of it’s capability to carry so much cargo (we always referred to it as hauling trash), but they also liked the capability of the KC-10 to carry trash too. I will never forget going to “Checkpoint Charlie” in the American zone of Berlin. It was a very sobering experience. I can’t imagine the dangers to weather, Soviet aviation threats, and lack of proper crew rest the men who flew these missions to save Berlin from falling to Communism.