A United States Air Force Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar at Ashiya Air Force Base in Japan during the Korean War. The C-119 approaches for a landing. The Flying Boxcar's engine starting. The C-119 taxis.
Combat cargo airdrop prepared at Ashiya Air Force Base in Japan during the Korean War. Views of the cargo which is to be dropped. Preparation area shows the cargo being assembled. American and Japanese personnel working in the area. Drums of gasoline, with protective cover, being prepared for dropping. Parachutes are attached to the gasoline drums. Conveyor belt system is used in the cargo preparation area. A Japanese civilian pushes two drums down through the area on the conveyor belt system. Japanese make parachute attachments to fifty gallon drums.
United States Air Force Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars at Ashiya Air Force Base in Japan during the Korean War. C-119 Flying Boxcars approach for landing and land. A C-119 Flying Boxcar taxis.
Combat cargo airdrop is prepared at Ashiya Air Force Base in Japan during the Korean War. A supply dump area shows combat cargo being prepared for loading into trucks. Loading operations show a fork lift, tractor and trailers, small trucks and personnel, a conveyor belt system and the working procedure in the dump area.
People being processed by the police in Berlin, Germany. Vicinity of the Brandenburg Gate: A policeman carries a suitcase followed by a few old people. People being processed by the police so that they can return to their homes. A Red Cross nurse talks to women seated with others on a park bench. People, including a nun, board a bus. Demonstrators carry a huge wooden cross and set it up in front of a Russian tank memorial.
East German civilians receive free food in Germany. Cargo ship, the American Inventor, at a pier in Hamburg with surplus food from America for starving East Germany. A pallet of food cartons is hoisted out of a hold. An official hands a box to a workman. Thousands of people wait for their turn to get food in queues in West Berlin, ignoring threats of reprisal from the communist government of East Berlin. In West Berlin, volunteers get food packages ready including lard, flour, condensed milk, beans, and peas. Women pick up their allotments and put them in shopping bags. A crowd milling around in front of buildings, with many camping overnight and waiting their turn to get food having come from as far away as the border with Czechoslovakia and the Baltic Coast.
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