Berlin Airlift

Record Group 342-G-24-68634 AC

Pvt. Donald E. McCord (right) of Anderson Ind., and the 7390th Air Force Engineer Group shows his Latvian helper (left) how to operate a caterpillar and pan. Pvt. McCord and other heavy equipment operators at Rhein Main Air Force Base moved some 24,000 tons of dirt in the construction of a base road network that facilitates rapid, efficient
loading of gasoline on aircraft flying the Berlin Airlift.

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