FReeper Canteen ~ The Berlin Airlift ~ Part 4: The Legacy ~ 28 December 2020

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The Berlin Airlift
Part 4: The Legecy

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THE AIRLIFT'S LEGACY
 

The most obvious result of this confrontation was the 40-year Cold War with the Soviet Union, which ebbed with the construction of the Berlin Wall, and the Korean and Vietnam Conflicts.  The US also forged a newfound friendship with Germany, its former foe, and established the Federal Republic of Germany as a result.  In addition, the North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO) was formed as a result of the crisis. 

Less politically, our aircraft and airway system we enjoy today was developed and perfected as a result of the Berlin Airlift.  Ground Controlled Approach or GCA was greatly improved as a necessity for the aircraft to land in Berlin, and our air traffic control system is a direct development of that technology.  Loading procedures and maintenance procedures are greatly improved as a result, too.

More importantly, the Berlin Airlift demonstrated the military need for Air Transport in addition to Bombers and Fighters.  A result is the Air Mobility Command and aircraft like the C-141 Starlifter, the C-130 Hercules, the C-5 Galaxy, and our newest transport, the C-17 Globemaster III. 

All of these political and logistical ideas came as a result of the resolve of the US, Great Britain, France, and Germany to resist totalitarian tactics and wage a battle of air transport.  This battle saved over 2.5 million people without firing a single shot.  In a matter of fifteen months in 1948-49, world history was changed by the greatest humanitarian aviation event in history, the Berlin Airlift. 

MEMORIALS: The Airlift Memorial at Rhein Main Air Base, Frankfurt, and on Luftbruckenplatz at Tempelhf  Airport in Berlin.

Each prong represents one of the 3 air corridors used during "Operation Vittles", and the names of the US and British Airmen killed in the process are inscribed on the base of each.

31 Americans lost their lives during the Berlin Airlift, paying the ultimate price for the freedom of others.  Let that not be forgotten.

1st Lt George B. Smith Tuscaloosa, Alabama	Captain James A. Vaughan New Haven, Connecticut	Cpl Norbert H. Theis Cunningham, Kansas
1st Lt Leland V. Williams Abilene, Texas	1st Lt Eugene S. Erickson Collinsville, Illinois	PFC Ronald E. Stone  Mt. Sterling, Kentucky
Mr Karl V. Hagen New York, New York	Sgt Richard Winter Seattle, Washington	1st Lt Ralph H. Boyd Fort Worth, Texas
1st Lt Charles H. King Britton, South Dakota	Captain Billy E. Phelps Long Beach, California	1st Lt Craig B. Ladd Minneapolis, Minnesota
1st Lt Robert W. Stuber Arlington, California	1st Lt Willis F. Hargis Nacogdoches, Texas	TSgt Charles L. Putnam Colorado Springs, Colorado
Major Edwin C. Diltz Fayetteville, Texas	TSgt Lloyd G. Wells San Antonio, Texas	1st Lt Robert P. Weaver Fort Wayne, Indiana
Captain Willian R. Howard Gunnison, Mississippi	AD/3 Harry R. Crites, Jr. Lafayette, Indiana	1st Lt Royce C. Stephens San Antonio, Texas
Captain Joel M. DeVolentine Miami, Florida	1st Lt Richard M. Wurgel Union City, New Jersey	1st Lt Robert C. von Luehrte Covington, Kentucky
1st Lt William T. Lucas Wilson, North Carolina	1st Lt Lowell A. Wheaton, Jr. Corpus Christi, Texas	2nd Lt Donald J. Leemon Green Bay, Wisconsin
PFC Johnny T. Orms Rhein-Main Air Base	Captain William A. Rathgeber Portland, Oregon	TSgt Herbert F. Heinig Fort Wayne, Indiana
	Sgt Bernard J. Watkins Lafayette, Indiana

 

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...weather improving? You and Penny able to get out?

High wind warnings for later today here.

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All the snow melted in the rain on Christmas day, so now it’s just dry and cold.

I can deal with that. It’s the snow and ice I hate.

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The Berlin Airlift Part 4 - The Legecy ~

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[Bonemaker]

You do the Lord’s work Kathy! I was stationed at Tempelhof 1966-1969 and know the whole bit. An incredible part of history that most don’t have a clue about.

[lightman]

Present!

Stand strong and stay safe.

[PROCON]

Great, incredible story retold each year, thanks Kathy!

[Kathy in Alaska]

OK....wishing you dry and cold. You and Penny have nice warm coats.

[Graybeard58]

1st Lt George B. Smith
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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That’s no 1st Lt.

[Kathy in Alaska]

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December 28

Rebuilding the Ruins

Bible in a Year:

• Zechariah 5–8
• Revelation 19

Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise and honor.

Jeremiah 33:9

At seventeen, Dowayne had to leave his family’s home in Manenberg, a part of Cape Town, South Africa, because of his stealing and addiction to heroin. He didn’t go far, building a shack of corrugated metal in his mother’s backyard, which soon became known as the Casino, a place to use drugs. When he was nineteen, however, Dowayne came to saving faith in Jesus. His journey off drugs was long and exhausting, but he got clean with God’s help and with the support of friends who are believers in Jesus. And ten years after Dowayne built the Casino, he and others turned the hut into a house church. What was once a dark and foreboding place now is a place of worship and prayer.

The leaders of this church look to Jeremiah 33 for how God can bring healing and restoration to people and places, as He’s done with Dowayne and the former Casino. The prophet Jeremiah spoke to God’s people in captivity, saying that although the city would not be spared, yet God would heal His people and would “rebuild them,” cleansing them from their sin (Jeremiah 33:7–8). Then the city would bring Him joy, renown, and honor (v. 9).

When we’re tempted to despair over the sin that brings heartbreak and brokenness, let’s continue to pray that God will bring healing and hope, even as He’s done in a backyard in Manenberg.

Reflect & Pray

How have you seen God bring restoration in your own life and in the lives of others? How can you pray for His healing this day?

God, thank You for sparking new life in what appeared to be dead. Continue to work in me, that I might share Your saving love with others.

[Mark17]

I was stationed at Tempelhof 1966-1969 and know the whole bit. An incredible part of history that most don’t have a clue about.

I was there in 1982, in the RADAR air traffic control room, watching aircraft fly to and from Berlin, in one of three corridors. The corridors were crowded with aircraft and they had to use altitude separation, to keep them apart.
Most of the air traffic was going to Tegel, but USAF controllers actually controlled all the traffic, to and from Berlin.

[Bonemaker]

Radint.😎 Been there mate!

[Bonemaker]

Look familiar?😀

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[luvie]

What an impressive roll-call of our fallen heroes
that sacrificed their lives so others might live.

[Cloverfarm]

Thanks, Kathy! My dad (age 91) participated in the airlift, being in the Army Air Corps/Air Force. I’m going to try and send him the links :-)

He and my mom still have their own home and he likes doing stuff on the computer, and still gardens in season.

[Kathy in Alaska]

You are right....several lost pictures in crashed computers.

1944-05-28 Brigadier-General (Army of the United States)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Should be....and corrected for next year.

1st Lt George B. Smith... Tuscaloosa, Alabama