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62 years ago the Berlin Airlift began today
62 years ago today, the first airplane of the Berlin Airlift made its first flight.
The Berlin Airlift
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06-26-2010, 05:14 PM
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Yup.
"Rosinenbomber" (raisin bombers) as the planes were affectionately called by Berliners. They were the lifeline for Berlin. In fact my old mom, who suffers from dementia, now refers to all aircraft as "rosinenbomber". She grew up in Berlin, and they obviously left a deep impression.
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06-26-2010, 05:32 PM
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A guy who hangs out at the local airport was a Flight Engineer during the Berlin Airlift.
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06-26-2010, 06:19 PM
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Joe, this plane is out of one the local airports here in Toms River. It was used in the Berlin airlift. It was totally restored. It flies to alot of the airshows.
Took these last summer   
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Good catch - I can't believe this flew right by me.
The Rosininbomber was Gail Halvorsen - his sig hangs proudly on my wall. Great writeup here: Welcome to the Air Command and Staff College Gathering of Eagles Homepage!
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Years ago when I was flying out of TCA one of our older guys flying with us was an instructor. I had a full military ID at that time so could go anywhere on base with the car. Was heading down to the bowling alley (had a bar and grill there) for lunch and gave him a ride. Along the way we drove by the DC-3 and DC-4 that was on show there.
He asked if I would stop for a sec and we did so. He wrote something down, then we went on to have lunch. His next rotation he asked if we could go back down by the planes. He had copied his logbook page from years before and brought it with him. Sure enough, he had flown this very DC-3 on display at Tempelhof Air Base in the Berlin Airlift. Tail numbers matched with the notation "coal inbound" on the log-page. Most of us met Gail Halvorsen as he came by the old base during the Airlift ceremony. Really nice guy. Joe A
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     The last time I saw Halvorsen, at the ILA airshow in Berlin 
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06-26-2010, 08:41 PM
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Amazing flying...and I'd like to think we have pilots every bit as willing today!
Not to try to take anything away from these heros...
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