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Record Group 342 -G 23-67613 AC
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AIR FORCE TRANSPORTS LINE UP TO FLY TO BERLIN. U.S. Air Force C-54s, concentrated in Germany from bases in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Caribbean, are lined up waiting take-off from Rhein Main Air Base at Frankfurt for Berlin during the airlift in which the Allies flew thousands of tons of food, coal, and other supplies to the western sectors of Berlin daily.
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Record Group 342 -G 23-5489
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Rhein/Main Air Force Base, Frankfurt Germany - The only one of its kind among a sea of C-54s, a scattering of C-47s and an occasional
C-47 is this new addition to the Rhein/Main Air Force Base, the
YC-97A. It is to be tried for air lift use by the 7497th Combined Airlift Task Force Wing of Rhein/Main and it is estimated that its average load will be that of 20 tons. Put out by the Boeing aircraft Company, with 3500 horsepower R-4360 Pratt-Whitney engines, this plane, a
sister ship of the B-50, "Lucky Lady II" and one of the airlines' Boeing Stratocruiser, has a top speed of more than 300 mph and can handle up to 53,000 pounds of cargo.
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mcoleman1@CompuServe.com
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