Page "United States Air Forces in Europe" Paragraph 284

The efforts of many hundreds of pilots and the many thousands of military and German civilians involved in the airlift kept the people of Berlin free of communist rule.

On one day, the Berlin Airlift delivered nearly 13, 000 tons of provisions with almost 1, 400 flights.

So great was the stream of aircraft that an aircraft landed almost once a minute at one of the three western Berlin airfields.

The continuous engine noise of the aircraft stream of heavy transports on their way to Berlin not only made an impression on the citizens of Berlin, but on the Soviet Union.