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Several C-54 Skymasters inside Rhein Main Air Base in Germany.

Interior of Rhein-Main air base in Frankfurt, Germany. Several C-54s parked at the base. Views of air planes from a building near-by. C-54 Skymaster, a USAF (United States Air Force) transport aircraft in flight. Truck getting unloaded near planes for Berlin Airlift operations during Berlin Blockade.

Date: 1949, March
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032472
United States Army Air Forces conduct an airlift that enables Berlin to survive in spite of a of Soviet blockade in post World War II Germany

Film begins showing ruins of the Bundestag in Berlin, in June, 1948. A tram rides along a street headed toward a tunnel through a destroyed building. Berliners walk about and eat at outdoor tables, enjoying the pleasant weather. On June 26, 1948, the Soviets established a blockade of West Berlin. View of Soviet soldiers in a line at a square in the city. A manufacturing business is seen being adversely affected by the blockade through denial of coal to generate electricity for it. The employees cover the company's equipment and close the business. People jam a corner store fearing a food shortage. Crowds mingle outside the main buildings of the Templehof airdrome. Some men hold a German newspaper announcing Allied intent to supply West Berlin by air. View of an American Army Air Forces C-47 transport plane landing at Templehof. A number of C-47s lined in a circle at the airport field as large trucks offload their cargoes. C-47 taxiing into position. German men climb aboard an open bus to start work at jobs unloading supplies from the aircraft. Views of the men busy with their labors. Glimpse of a "follow me" jeep leading a just landed aircraft to its parking place at night. Images of the workers dimly seen in the semi dark. View of the circular Templehof buildings. A truckload of German workers being carried to their work places. American pilots entering Base operations at Temlehof. Pilots inside Base operations, taking a break while their C-47 is being unloaded. They head out to their airplane to fly back to Frankfurt, Germany for another load of cargo. The climb aboard through the plane's side door. View of C-47 flying with clouds in the background along the Berlin Corridor. Ambulance seen responding to an Airlift aircraft crash. View of aircraft wreckage in a city. It is up side down with landing gear pointing skyward. The wreckage being carted away on a flat bed truck. German citizens gathered in front of a memorial plaque they had put in place. An Army Air Forces Lieutenant and another C-47 pilot look up as the board their plane to watch a four engine C54 transport plane coming in to land. Several views of C-54 transport aircraft in flight overhead. Airlift pilots are seen in a briefing room. Animated map shows Berlin as an "island" in the Soviet zone of occupation, accessible only by three 20mile wide air corridors. Several air bases in the Western zones are shown. Map shows Berlin's three airfields, Templehof, Tegel, and Gatow in the Western sectors, surrounded by a ring of Soviet fields. A line of American C-47s is shown on the map, flying from Wiesbaden airdrome, along a corridor to Berlin, from 9:30 AM until 11:30 AM. At 12:00 Noon the C-54s began flying from Rhein Main air base. At 3:00 PM the C-54s stopped and the C-47s began again. Illustration shows how the aircraft were separated by three minute intervals and a thousand feet in altitude. Closeup of a C-54 pilot in his cockpit as he starts his engines. The plane has "The Air Transport Command" written on its side. Inside the C-54 the flight engineer is seen at his panel performing engine start at the direction of the Aircraft Commander Pilot. View of the pilot in the cockpit and his instrument panel. The aircraft taking off. Views of cargo handling on the ground. Trucks carrying the cargoes to places they are needed in the city. Bread being baked for Berliners. Coal being unloaded from rail cars after being flown into the city, A crane operates in a Western sector coal yard. Smoke rising from some of the restarted factories. German employees punch a time clock. Doctors examine school age children. View of street cars operating on power generated by burning coal. Commercial vehicles operating on airlifted gasoline. Darkness due to power saving at night. But people arriving in the city by subway in the morning. Glimpse of C-54 overhead. Food being prepared and sold in shops. People patronizing a news stand. The damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, with C-54 in flight in far distant background. German workers sweeping the airfield ramp. An officer from Base operations arrives in a jeep to debrief a C-54 crew as a truckload of German workers pulls up to begin unloading their cargo. Crew members get food from a mobile snack bar the meets their airplane. A German worker who knew a pilot gives him a gift of a wind up musical Steiff bear for his child. The two pilots begin dancing to the toy bear's tune. The pilot places the toy bear next to the window in his cockpit. Back home, near Frankfurt, the pilot greets his wife, baby and school age daughter, whom he gives the toy bear. The next day, the pilot walks to the rear of his aircraft while en route to Berlin. He throws little parachutes of candy out a window for the children of Berlin below. Views of the parachutes descending and children rushing to retrieve and unwrap them.

Date: 1949
Duration: 13 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039503
USAF Military Airlift Command (MAC) aircraft on missions to England, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Karachi, Manila, Japan, and Australia.

View of a United States Air Force Military Airlift Command C-141 aircraft in flight overhead. Pilot and copilot in cockpit of a C-141 inflight. A flight engineer and navigator at their respective stations in the aircraft. C-141 aircraft from the 437th Military Airlift Wing, at Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, taxis on the ramp at RAF Station, Mildenhall, England. A C-130 on final approach, passing thatched roof cottage and stone house nearby. A C-141transport aircraft flying low over a highway as it descends to land at the Rhein Main Air Base, Frankfurt, Germany. The C-141 touching down on the runway. View of trams running in the city of Frankfurt. Quick closeup of airport control tower at Torrejon Air Base, near Madrid, Spain and camera pans to a C-130 aircraft parked on the ramp. View from the air of the las ventas bull ring, in Madrid. The Banco Central building as viewed from the Plaza de la Cibeles, in Madrid. A MAC C-141 taxiing to park at the Incirlik Airfield, Adana, Turkey. Flowers in gardens at the Sultanahmet Mosque in Istanbul. Brief sunset view of an unidentified mosque. view of the passenger terminal at Karachi International Airport, Pakistan. Camera pans across a ramp to a MAC C-5 aircraft with its nose loading doors open. View of the Pasig River and buildings, from aircraft flying over Manila, Philippines and ground-level view of a central square. A crowded shopping area in Japan. The Sidney Bridge (and opera house in background), Sidney, Australia. A C-5 inflight departing a coastline. Crew members in cockpit of a C-5. A navigator with sextant mounted in roof of aircraft.

Date: 1975
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021083
Workers use an acetylene torch at Festhalle construction site in Frankfurt, Germany.

Rebuilding and reconstruction activities in Frankfurt, Germany after World War II. Exterior and interior views of the damaged Festhalle Frankfurt (Messe Frankfurt Venue GmbH, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany) at the Frankfurter Messegelände. Workers use an acetylene torch on a girder at the Festhalle construction site.

Date: 1949, September 28
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056122
Operation Kinderlift , run by U.S. Air Forces Europe and Red Cross, flies children from Berlin to West Germany for vacations

Operation Kinderlift, of United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE) and the Red Cross, that flies German children from Berlin for summer vacations in West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany). U.S. military buses arrive at Tempelhof airdrome, Berlin, carrying children and their parents. They leave buses and assemble to hear remarks from John J. McCloy, United States High Commissioner for Germany, and from USAF Colonel Joseph G. Manyo, Director of Kinderlift II. Each child wears an identification tag reading: "Kinderluftbrucke." They are escorted to C-47 transport aircraft by U.S. Air Force and Red Cross personnel. Their parents and relatives wave goodbye to them. View showing children seated inside a C-47 airplane. The aircraft arriving at Rhein Main Air field, Frankfurt, and Red Cross personnel and U.S. airmen, helping children off the airplane. Children running from a bus, and then in a dining hall, having a snack, including Pepsi Cola, in bottles. Children walking into a camp, carrying their luggage. A sign at the entrance reads: " JUGENDLAGER, KLEIN-BERLIN, HERZUCH WILLKOMMEN." Children eating dinner in dining hall at the camp.

Date: 1953, July 6
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032392
Opera House, City Hall, and Frankfurt Cathedral in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Tourist destinations and architecture in Germany. Trams move on the streets of Frankfurt am Main, the birthplace of Goethe. “Frankfurt- Bad Homburg” tram. A large crowd at Frankfurt Innenstadt or historic center. Buildings on either side of a street in the background. View of the Frankfurt Opera House (Opernpl. 1, 60313 Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Bridge of the Frankfurter Römer or city hall. A statue of Justitia in front of the city hall. Tower of Frankfurt Cathedral (Domplatz 1, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany) as seen from a street. Street in front of the Frankfurter Römer. Guards stand outside the hall. A large crowd goes inside the hall. People dive into a swimming pool. A large crowd of spectators.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055448