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Instead of Wunsdorf’s 2 weeks and Fassberg’s just under a month, I was to stay at Lubeck until April 1949.</B></div> <div> <B>The large ring on the map shows the R.A.F.Station and to the right is the Blankensee (Lake) at the back of the Officers mess.</B></div> <div> <B>We were sent to our billet out at St. Hubertus, we had to go and come by truck, when we walked in to the billet for the first time, the smell that hit us was vile, we said we couldn’t sleep here and were told it was the garlic drying in the basement and it would do us </B></div> <div> <B>good, so we stuck it out and it did get less noticeable as the days went by. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0a9fa4d0.jpg" border=0 width="506" height="333" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Top left Station Sick Quarters R.A.F. St. Hubertus Lubeck. </B></div> <div> <B>Top right the tennis courts. Underneath, Willy on his bed St Hubertus, wonder if it still smells of the garlic ?</B></div> <div> <B>Eventually they had got our billet revamped for us on the camp so we soon moved in, bliss. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0aa32bc0.jpg" border=0 width="306" height="444" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0abab660.jpg" border=0 width="171" height="102" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The billets, with bags of room between them. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2cf3aaa0.jpg" border=0 width="314" height="426" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The park as you come in to Lubeck town.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0ac90140.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="276" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>                           Dakota's on the Flight's Lubeck.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I puchased a Trombone down in Lubeck and used to go down into the basement to </B></div> <div> <B>play it, as there were big steel doors I could close I did not think I would be heard but</B></div> <div> <B>after a few weeks I came back to the billet, after being on flight lines duty, all day to </B></div> <div> <B>find it in 6 inch pieces, there endeth my playing days, anyone wan't to own up? I asked</B></div> <div> <B>Bill Campbell the web master of the B.B.A.A. if he would put it on their web site and he did, nobody said they had done it though.</B></div> <div> <B>Someone started a model aircraft club, so I joined, where we got the aircraft from I can’t remember, I built a delta wing and used a jetex engine to power it, we had fun on our</B></div> <div> <B>time off.</B></div> <div> <B>Now for some photos.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0ade8940.jpg" border=0 width="232" height="148" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">               <IMG SRC="0ae99990.jpg" border=0 width="153" height="153" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Brumie in bed, anyone know him?                                   Me and ??? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0af343a0.jpg" border=0 width="308" height="314" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Were we that bad at </B></div> <div> <B>playing the harmonica? </B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0b02c600.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="352" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The two harmonica players in Hamburg.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0b19c950.jpg" border=0 width="156" height="149" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Me and Bert, Hamburg </B></div> <div> <B>N.A.F.F.I. </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Some more of Bill's photos.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0b3a2f40.jpg" border=0 width="418" height="500" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Holsten Tor, Lubeck. Kaiser Wilhelm Statue, Lubeck.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>St Mary's Church with bomb damage, Lubeck.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Alster, Hamburg. House Kogge and Harbour, Lubeck</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>More bomb damage, at Braunstrasse, Lubeck.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0b405990.jpg" border=0 width="517" height="409" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Top left, Willey, Bill and Brooksbank the Alster, Hamburg.</B></div> <div> <B>Top right, Willey, Brooksbank and Taylor, outside the Central Court of Justice, Hamburg.</B></div> <div> <B>Next three left to right, Willey, Bill and Taylor, at the Alster Hamburg. </B></div> <div> <B>Taylor, Bill and Brooksbank, by one of the statues in the square outside the Central </B></div> <div> <B>Court of Justice, and Willey, Bill an Taylor on one of the pleasure boats on the Aster,</B></div> <div> <B> in Hamburg.</B></div> <div> <B>Thanks once again to ex Cpl. William S (Bill) Evison, for bringing back some memories, </B></div> <div> <B>of when we were in Lubeck at the same time.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Someone said why are there no signs of Dakota's in my pictures, so I will now rectify that, with a few more</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2b7595e0.jpg" border=0 width="601" height="350" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Dac KN 434 on the perimeter track.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2b838100.jpg" border=0 width="568" height="272" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>  No idea whose aircraft this was.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2e38a730.jpg" border=0 width="650" height="371" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Dakota KN424, Lubeck October 1948.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0b62e100.jpg" border=0 width="302" height="272" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B> Yours truly, </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0b716f80.jpg" border=0 width="278" height="248" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>This one definitely running up Dakota affter doing inspection on it.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0b8c86f0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="111" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Here I am in one of No 80 Squadrons Spitfire's, how or why I managed to get in it I</B></div> <div> <B> haven't a clue, they were the only operational unit to use this mark. I thought this </B></div> <div> <B>was one I was running up for the CO as stand in FME, but it was Fassberg not Lubeck,</B></div> <div> <B>so have no photo of it, must be my memory failing, still it was only 58 years ago. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0b915470.jpg" border=0 width="533" height="327" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Anyone know any body??</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2ba1c5e0.jpg" border=0 width="540" height="350" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Batman practicing with a stationary Dak, could it be me ??.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0ba900b0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="267" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>This Dak was in Lubeck but cannot remember the lads.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It was only by luck I thought, that I didn’t die on the way from Lubeck to the British </B></div> <div> <B>Military Hospital in Hamburg. I had been diagnosed with an acute appendicitis and the MO. Said I should be taken in a V.W. as the heavy suspension on the ambulance would</B></div> <div> <B>not get me to the hospital safely. This I found out after the operation, the Doctor said to</B></div> <div> <B>me Mr Hienz (no I haven’t spelt it wrong, that’s how he spoke my name) if it hadn’t been </B></div> <div> <B>for our wonderful V.W. you would have died on the way here, so it was realy thanks to </B></div> <div> <B>the MO.</B></div> <div> <B>Anyway that was just before Christmas 1948 so I was allowed a bit of time to recuperate but what did I do, I went ice skating on the lake at the back of the Officers Mess, I always took my ice hockey skates with me just in case I had the chance to go skating. Well this day I went to the landing stage and lowered myself on the ice then started to skate to the other side, just over half way I heard this screeching noise, I looked round and found the ice was breaking behind me, so I put more speed on and got to within 2 meters of the </B></div> <div> <B>edge when the ice broke and I went under but luckily the water only came up to my elbows so I waded the rest of the way, shivering like mad. The moral is, do not go skating after an operation. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0bbe4950.jpg" border=0 width="228" height="149" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="0bcde940.jpg" border=0 width="222" height="148" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>this shows the size of the lake, pity I could not get the photos to line up.</B></div> <div> <B>That was a good start to my Christmas. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As usual on Christmas day the Officers gave us our dinner and a good time was had </B></div> <div> <B>by all. Bill Evison has just sent me the following.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0bd09700.jpg" border=0 width="265" height="368" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0be116c0.jpg" border=0 width="529" height="364" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>He sent his home, I can't think where mine went. Thanks Bill for this surpprise.</B></div> <div> <B>That night in the NAAFI, some of the British stars came and entertained us. </B></div> <div> <B>In the new year four of us decided to go for a horse ride, they were hiring them out just across the road from the camp, I had the white one( whenever I go riding I manage to </B></div> <div> <B>get a white horse, maybe it’s because they are smaller and I don’t have so far to fall) anyway we set off at a canter and were enjoying the cold air passing by our faces, when there was a noise of a machine gun and the sound of bullets hitting the trees around us, </B></div> <div> <B>so we headed back for camp like bats out of hell, it had been the East German Border Guards, someone had fired at us thinking we were deer, not much difference, so we </B></div> <div> <B>found out later. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0bf4bdf0.jpg" border=0 width="331" height="223" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="0c0d5dc0.jpg" border=0 width="213" height="220" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>As I said I am on the white horse and next to me is Bert, could it be E.J.Wilmshurst?</B></div> <div> <B>The photo to the right of the 'cowboy's' is me in the NAAFI Tent on the flight lines.</B></div> <div> <B>I should have been demobbed in January but was asked to stay on for another three months, so I said yes I would. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0c12c820.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="386" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Had I done the right thing signing on ???</B></div> <div> <B>So on the whole I had enjoyed my time in the R.A.F. made a lot of friends </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0c2e0940.jpg" border=0 width="224" height="148" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>So here we are on our way home for demob, over the Hook of Holland, nice trip but we were told that customs were going through everyones kit, the panic that caused. The number of items that were thrown out of the aircraft over the North sea was fantastic, I won't say what I dumped.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2cedaf60.jpg" border=0 width="474" height="246" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2cd26b60.jpg" border=0 width="294" height="438" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Above two photos of Oakington. We came back here from Germany for leave, </B></div> <div> <B>the photo of me above, was just killing time for my demob.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0c3b8280.jpg" border=0 width="440" height="296" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The guard room as it was a few years ago when my mate Doug, who was on the Berlin airlift was back at Lubeck, he took this photo and two more below.</B></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 294 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0c4a6200.jpg" border=0 width="422" height="288" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 14464 WIDTH="566"><div> <B>This is opposite the camp, as it is a few years ago, we found the horse hire firm down this lane. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0c558900.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>and this is the airfield, taken at the same time by Doug. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The following photos I took when the Wife and I were </B></div> <div> <B>visiting Berlin, Lubeck, Celle and Hamburg. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0c634580.jpg" border=0 width="564" height="344" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Above, view of the Holsten Tor. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0c858800.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="384" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Above, the Holsten Tor from the top of St Peters church. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0c908520.jpg" border=0 width="520" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>And St Peters Church taken from the Holsten Tor, do get around don't we. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0ca1e680.jpg" border=0 width="542" height="360" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The best place to get marzipan, the shop on the right sells all shapes and sizes of </B></div> <div> <B>Marzipan items, as some below. </B></div> <div> <B>On the left of the photo is the Town Hall and the cellar (wine and beer drinking) </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0cbabd50.jpg" border=0 width="427" height="213" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="216f1f40.jpg" border=0 width="241" height="500" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>we manage to get some local, in Devon, for Christmas and other times, for presents. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0cc34590.jpg" border=0 width="564" height="345" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The Lubeck Railway station, we arived here from Hamburg and started our journey here down to Celle and down the Rhine to Stuttgart. </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>****</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Ater the Airlift had finished a Memorial was erected outside Tempelhof airfield in Berlin, and then other German airfields had theirs and the German Post struck a Memorial stamp.</B></div> <div> <B>There is a memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum,at Alrewas, Staffordshire.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0cdc80e0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="270" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                                  <IMG SRC="0ce55850.jpg" border=0 width="85" height="133" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   </B></div> <div> <B>The Memorial at Tempelhof.                         And a commemorative stamp.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0cf0f1e0.jpg" border=0 width="271" height="286" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>A map of the airfields used.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d02c900.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   <IMG SRC="0d12cc40.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="196" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Above is the Memorial at Alrewas, with the names of those who died, as stated below. Seventy British, Commonwealth and American airmen, together with eight </B></div> <div> <B>German civilians were killed during the Airlift.</B></div> <div> <B>The thirty-nine Royal Air Force, British civilians and Commonwealth Airmen who died </B></div> <div> <B>are commemorated by a plinth and with the thirty-nine trees planted behind it, at </B></div> <div> <B>Alrewas, Staffordshire.The above Memorials were paid for by funds raised by the</B></div> <div> <B> BBAA. Information on that Association follows.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U>British Berlin Airlift Association.</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The decision to form a British Berlin Airlift Association, (an American equivalent has existed since 1989),was taken in early September 1994, when ten veterans of the Berlin Airlift (4 Dakota and 6 York), together with 10 Americans, had the honour to be invited by the Berlin Senate to attend the ceremonies, on 6-8</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>th</B></FONT><B> September, marking the withdrawal of the Western Allies from Berlin.</B></div> <div> <B>Advertisements were placed in 27 Aviation related magazines and many Secretaries of Squadron and Civil Aviation Associations were contacted.</B></div> <div> <B>Over 400 replies were received, </B></div> <div> <B>a small Committee was formed and invitations to join the BBAA were posted.</B></div> <div> <B>The Chairman of the Berlin Gratitude Foundation (Stifflung Luftbruckendank),</B></div> <div> <B>Heinz-Gerd Reese, gave DM1,000 (£433.00) to assist with the setting up cost, </B></div> <div> <B>a gift much appreciated. </B></div> <div> <B>Subscriptions were set at £5.00 annually and have been received from 320.</B></div> <div> <B>The first AGM was held at the RAF Club, Piccadilly, London on 1</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>st</B></FONT><B> September 1995 commencing at 10.30am.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>BBAA web site :- </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.bbaa-airlift.org.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bbaa-airlift.org.uk"><B><U>www.bbaa-airlift.org.uk</U></B></A></FONT><A HREF="http://www.bbaa-airlift.org.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bbaa-airlift.org.uk"><B> </B></A></div> <div> <B>Web Master Geoff Smith.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>   </B><B> </B><B> </B><B><U>AIRCRAFT THAT OPERATED ON THE AIRLIFT</U></B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="627" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 367 ><NOBR><div> <I><B><U><IMG SRC="23ad6660.jpg" border=0 width="470" height="358" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="310"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="310" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="310"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="310" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="310"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="310" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="310"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="310" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="310"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="310" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="310"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="310" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="626" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 731 ><NOBR><div> <B>Royal Air Force and Commonwealth Air Forces.</B></div> <div> Douglas Dakota, Avro York,</div> <div> Handley Page Hastings, Short Sunderland</div> <div> <B>Civil Aircraft.</B></div> <div> Douglas Dakota (19)</div> <div> Avro Lancastrian (17)</div> <div> Consolidated Liberator (3)</div> <div> Handley Page Halifax/Halton (41)</div> <div> Bristol Freighter/Wayfarer (6)</div> <div> Avro Lincoln (1)</div> <div> Short Hythe (3)</div> <div> Avro Tudor (9)</div> <div> Avro York (3)</div> <div> Vickers Viking (2)</div> <bR> <div> <B>United States Air Force:</B></div> <div> Douglas C47 Skytrain</div> <div> Douglas C54 Skymaster</div> <div> Boeing C97 Stratofreighter</div> <div> Fairchild C82 Packet</div> <div> Douglas C74 Globemaster 1 </div> <bR> <div> <B>              /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Just published, 2007, the following book, </B></div> <div> <B>by Bob Clarke.</B></div> <div> <B>It is a must,</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" ><B> for anyone, </B></FONT></div> <div> <B>who was engaged on the Airlift.</B></div> <div> <B>Details of where to purchase it are below</B></div> <div> <B>Go to:-        </B><A HREF="http://www.amazon.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.amazon.co.uk"><B>www.amazon.co.uk.</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Click on books, in search, then type in Berlin Airlift, </B></div> <div> <B>scroll down until you find the book.</B></div> <div> <B>Amazon price £12.59 plus free delivery</B></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="23e5ef70.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="503" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="242c2950.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="661" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The following photos, the cartoon, and the comments,</B></div> <div> <B> have been taken from the author's book, </B></div> <div> <B>with his written permission.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="248f12c0.jpg" border=0 width="497" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The new Deutschmark was introduced into B</B><B>erlin on</B></div> <div> <B> 23 June 1948. The 'B' stamp, was to combat profiteering</B></div> <div> <B> and movement of the notes out of the city.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="24af42c0.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The Douglas Dakota was the mainstay of the early </B></div> <div> <B>Royal Air Force effort. Nearly a hundred were brought </B></div> <div> <B>out of storage to supplement the lift.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="24c772c0.jpg" border=0 width="375" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>British Prime Minister Clement Attlee described his visit</B></div> <div> <B> to Gatow as, 'one of the wonders of the world'</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="24f3b2c0.jpg" border=0 width="571" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Flight Lieutenant 'Frosty' Winterbottom kept the </B></div> <div> <B>British end up with offerings such as this.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>                                ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I joined the BBAA in June 1995, I have not been able to attend any of the AGM’s but have made a trip to Berlin in 1998 for the 50th celebrations, 1948-1998.here are some photos from that trip.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We were all invited to a reception at the British Embassy on the 3oth September 1998, invite below.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="239f5900.jpg" border=0 width="501" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d258900.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Museum of the Berlin Airlift, Clayallee, Berlin, with a Handley-Page Hastings, it was</B></div> <div> <B>lifted into position by a gigatic crane. We were taken here by the Gratitude Foundation, then we were taken to other places during our stay. We arrived on the 30th September </B></div> <div> <B>and left Berlin on the 4th October 1998.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d358900.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>This is were we had our lunch, very nice.    Menu below.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="23736900.jpg" border=0 width="566" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d458900.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Barbara, my Wife, was checking over the fruit and veg.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d558900.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>We were then put on a coach for Gatow airbase but it broke down some way from here and we had to wait for a bus to continue our journey, just like being at home!!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d658900.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>As you can see by the number coming off the bus, there were a lot of us.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>These are the tags we were given to wear, as you can see us wearing them in the above photos.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d72c5c0.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="348" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="0d809590.jpg" border=0 width="265" height="345" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The start of our tour of the Gatow Museum.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d9528c0.jpg" border=0 width="594" height="396" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Taken in the Museum showing the 3 different markings of the Dakota.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Waiting in the warmth of the coach prior to marching at the head of the parade for unification. As we were marching, the rain and then snow came, most of us in blazers and no macks or coats.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0da58ab0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="427" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Luch on our last day at the horse trotting course.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0db58b00.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="432" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>More for lunch.</B></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <IMG SRC="0dd54b80.jpg" border=0 width="596" height="440" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>