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Grains packed in bags then carried to Rhein Main Air Force Base in Frankfurt, Germany during Berlin Airlift operations

A scoop crane scooping grains from reserve and putting it into a big machine. Grains are packed in clothe bags. Cloth bags are transported in barges. Bags then carried in trucks to Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany. Trucks are lined up and several USAF (United States Air Force) planes in background. Bags are unloaded from trucks to plane during Berlin Airlift period.

Date: 1949, March
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032471
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
Evacuation of Shanghai as Red Chinese advance; Communist rallies in Italy, East Germany; Riots in Bogota

Refugees and foreigners fleeing conflict and unrest head to Shanghai as the Communist Chinese Army advances, challenging those loyal to Nationalist China. An Orthodox priest looks at an infant carried by a European woman. Many people are screened before boarding the USS General W.H. Gordon (AP-117) to evacuate. Two Roman Catholic nuns board the ship. The ship departs from Shanghai. Scene shifts to view of Communists on parade in Rome, Italy and assemble at event overseen by Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti. Crowds of communist Italians gathered at the Stadio dei Marmi (Viale dello Stadio dei Marmi, 00135 Roma RM, Italy). In East Germany a large poster showing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Speakers at rally of East German FDGB (Freier Deutscher Gewerkshaftsbund) which is the Free German Trade Union Federation. Rioting and destruction in riots in Bogota, Colombia, after 1948 assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. Crowds of Colombian protestors overturn cars and burn cars and streetcars. Protestors through files of paperwork out of windows of a government building during unrest.

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037967
American sand British Planes carry supplies to blockaded Berlin

America and Britain conduct Berlin Airlift operations, flying supplies to blockaded East Berlin during the Soviet Berlin Blockade. Blockade lifted. Refugees flee East Germany and move to West Germany.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058356
Bob Hope and Irvin Berlin entertain "Operation Vittles" Berlin Airlift fliers at a hall in Berlin Germany.

(First half of clip has no sound). A long queue of fliers of Operation Vittles (Berlin Airlift) outside a performance hall building. Fliers sitting in an auditorium. The gathering includes General Lucius Clay and Army Secretary Kenneth Claiborne Royall. Actor Bob Hope and Irvin Berlin perform to entertain them. Berlin jokes that he has changed his last name to Jones because in Berlin anything with the name "Berlin" is cut up into sectors.

Date: 1949, January 3
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023835
The Berlin Airlift. Allied aircraft transport and unload cargos for the city at Tempelhof Airdrome in Berlin, Germany.

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.

Date: 1949, March
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032473