The Berlin Airlift to sustain the city of Berlin during a Soviet blockade in the Cold War, following World War 2. Sign on airport building reads: "U.S. Air Force Station, Tempelhof, European Air Transport Service." A C-47 aircraft is seen being offloaded. A C-47 tazis past the camera. Others are seen parked. Scene shifts to a truck pulled up next to a C-54 transport plane being unloaded. A C-54 aircraft inflight overhead. German workmen unloading a C-54 into a truck. Men inside the aircraft roll sacks of coal down a slide to the men in the truck. Glimpse from inside the aircraft of coal sacks being placed on the chute and sliding to the truck bed. Some loose coal is scattered near the bottom of the chute. View of offloading operations from another C-54 aircraft. In this case, the cargo includes boxes and canvas bags. A truck backed up right against a C-47 aircraft to unload it. View of the terminal building in background. U.S. airmen unloading cargo from the doorway of a C-47. View inside where workers form a chain to pass parcels toward the door for unloading. Interior of a C-54 aircraft where a large pallet of cargo is seen on the floor. Men remove netting from the pallet. Glimpse from the rear of a British 4-engine Handley Page bomber aircraft being unloaded. A truck backing up to a parked C-47 aircraft. Cargo of Cartons and tins. One box contains a label reading: " J. & A. Kraus. Leberwurst." Other cargo includes wooden boxes. Final scene is a truck backing up to a parked British Handley Page bomber.
A film titled 'Berlin Blockade Ends' depicts the conditions which existed during blockade, the Berlin Airlift operation, and final lifting of blockade in Berlin, Germany. Rooftops of Berlin. A damaged building. A plane flies high over damaged buildings. Pedestrians crowding streets. A group around newsstand. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley stands before a map of Berlin as he speaks about Berlin blockade. Interiors of Air Safety Center with French, British, and U.S. representatives working side by side. Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Crowd on a street. Two Soviet officers walk along a deserted railroad track. Deserted Charlottenburg railroad station.
Berlin blockade to be lifted. Public and press gathered outside United States Mission building to the United Nations in Lake Success New York, USA. Inside the building, Russian and American dignitaries and UN representatives negotiate an end to the blockade. Closeups of the negotiators, including American diplomat Philip Jessup, Soviet diplomat Yakov Malik, and Sir Alexander Cadogan and Jean Chauvel, the United Nations permanent representatives from England and France, respectively. During the talks, Russia agrees to lift blockade from Berlin, Germany, via the Jessup-Malik Agreement. Dignitaries leave after the conference concludes. A railroad yard in Germany with rail cars filled with coal and other supplies, but idle due to the blockade. View of a busy city street in Berlin and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the distance. German pedestrian and vehicular traffic in Berlin.
A woman dubbed "Mrs. Dynamite" supervises demolition of war-scarred buildings in Berlin following World War 2. She sits with another woman and a man as they make dynamite sticks. A man arranges dynamite sticks on a table. He sprays the sticks in a casket. Mrs. Dynamite and her team walks into a destroyed building. She places the sticks into a wall. She emerges from the building and pushes the detonation plunger. The building collapses due to the explosion. Smoke and rubble due to the explosion.
Berlin Airlift during post-World War II blockade of Berlin and final lifting of blockade. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley stands before a map of Berlin as he speaks about final lifting of Berlin blockade. Two officers work at airport control tower. U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft takes off from a runway.
Berlin during Berlin Airlift operations. Streetcars in Berlin enter tunnel. Pedestrians walk on streets. Roads of Berlin darkened during night hours due to power cuts. A Berlin Airlift "Raisin Bomber" airplane flying low over the city at dusk. Headlamps of vehicles on streets during night. People going to work walk up the stairs of a subway in morning hours. Counter girl sells bread and other bakery goods to customers in a bakery shop. Canned goods emptied from a can and weighed in a shop. Citizens gathered around a news stand. A busy market of Berlin. The partially bomb damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, with a plan flying in the background.