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Old February 12th 07, 04:12 PM posted to rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.ifr
Sam Spade
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Default Berlin Airlift, IFR

Thomas Borchert wrote:

John,


This was the
Cold War, the planes were based in England and more eastern locations:
Holland, Fance, West Germany...



England? First I hear about that. West Germany is were they came from,
it was a really short run for most. Flying boats took off in Hamburg
harbour, landing on the Wannsee.


Perhaps there were some miscellaneous flights from the U.K. As I
recall, the "mainline" supply flights had less than 200 miles from
departure to landing.