[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The Berlin Airlift ~ Part 1: the Beginning ~

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[pfflier]

My dad was assigned to Rhine Main in 1964 while in the USAF. He had several luftwaffe counterpart coworkers. We met and socialized with their families. The parents had still fresh memories of the Berlin Airlift and expressed a huge amount of gratitude to their American friends. We felt very welcomed.

[Mark17]

I was in the air traffic control facility (RAPCON, radar approach control) at Tempelhof. We worked approach control for Tegel and Gatow. Mostly we just cleared them for a visual approach, and sent them on their way. We controlled the 3 corridors going into West Berlin. The Russians generally stayed out of the corridors, but we had one radar scope, dedicated to keeping an eye on the Russians, so they couldn’t try any crap, and lie about it. 🤪😆

[radu]

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