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FReeper Canteen ~ The Berlin Airlift ~ Part 4: The Legacy ~ 28 December 2020
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Posted on 12/27/2020 5:05:14 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska

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The Berlin Airlift
Part 4: The Legecy


All info and photos from
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Link to Part 1
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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

 

 

 

Please remember the Canteen is here to honor, support and entertain our troops and their families.  This is a politics-free zone!  Thanks for helping us in our mission!



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1 posted on 12/27/2020 5:05:14 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))


2 posted on 12/27/2020 5:07:20 PM PST by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: left that other site

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

High wind warnings for later today here.


3 posted on 12/27/2020 5:15:18 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska

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.


4 posted on 12/27/2020 5:17:30 PM PST by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: MoJo2001; 007; 1 FELLOW FREEPER; 11B3; 1FreeAmerican; 1stbn27; 2111USMC; 2LT Radix jr; 300winmag; ..

~ The Berlin Airlift Part 4 - The Legecy ~

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5 posted on 12/27/2020 5:25:41 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska

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.


6 posted on 12/27/2020 5:30:56 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Present!

Stand strong and stay safe.


7 posted on 12/27/2020 5:36:33 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Great, incredible story retold each year, thanks Kathy!


8 posted on 12/27/2020 5:39:08 PM PST by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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To: left that other site

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


9 posted on 12/27/2020 5:41:39 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska

1st Lt George B. Smith
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

............................................

That’s no 1st Lt.


10 posted on 12/27/2020 5:43:17 PM PST by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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To: The Mayor; PROCON; mylife; mountainlion; Publius; Jet Jaguar; ConorMacNessa; ...

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!


11 posted on 12/27/2020 5:46:59 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Freep mail me to be on or off the Daily Bread ping list


December 28

Rebuilding the Ruins

Bible in a Year:

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.


12 posted on 12/27/2020 6:07:39 PM PST by The Mayor (I am outraged at your outrage toward the outrage!)
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To: Bonemaker
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.

13 posted on 12/27/2020 6:16:14 PM PST by Mark17 (USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. )
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To: Mark17

Radint.😎 Been there mate!


14 posted on 12/27/2020 6:17:52 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Mark17
Look familiar?😀


15 posted on 12/27/2020 6:21:06 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; luvie; HiJinx; AZamericonnie; Jet Jaguar; beachn4fun; SandRat; laurenmarlowe; ...

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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

THANK YOU
for your service!


16 posted on 12/27/2020 6:45:09 PM PST by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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To: Kathy in Alaska; GodBlessUSA; radu; mylife; MS.BEHAVIN; ConorMacNessa; PROCON; laurenmarlowe; ...

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

17 posted on 12/27/2020 6:59:16 PM PST by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

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.


18 posted on 12/27/2020 7:02:03 PM PST by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: Graybeard58
You are right....several lost pictures in crashed computers.

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

19 posted on 12/27/2020 7:28:52 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Graybeard58
Should be....and corrected for next year.

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

20 posted on 12/27/2020 7:42:39 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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