The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 17, 1949, Page 10

CUPRA rece mm Apes Pte SANE ear ire Sei ~pade TRA TH KEY Wilst cirizen <n. aSTURSDAy, FEBRUARY 17,1949...» cai aia ae REGEN RETF ER: CREME EE GSC REE ana : Boer eae eee ae = ee a ee eet MR, AND. MRS. RICH ARE RICH WITH CHILDREN Hitchhiker On ‘High Plane 4 Berlin's ‘Operation Vittles’: Proves’ Exciting | To Lady Passenger Who Got A Lift (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article is by Alma DeLuce, wife of AP’s Pultizer Prize winning reporter Dan DeLuce. DeLuce recently drrived in Berlin.) By ALAMA DeLUCE, AP Newsfeatures Writer BERLIN—No skirts are allowed on the Allied airlift. Thad to borrow overalls to hitchhike over the clouds to Berlin. The sky was ten tons of flour on the looked my frivolous Legroux my dress. Anybody riding the airlift, they has to be ready to om a parachute harness, if necessary. That's why trousers re de rigeur | really hadn't expected to be a hitchhiker. But the fog was so thick in Frankfurth, the capital of American Zone in Western Germany, that nothing flew for nearly three days. Commercial planes were still grounded when the Berlin blockade-busters be- nm tak'ng off again. The woods around the Rhein- Main airport looked like a setting The Snow Maiden. The C-54s yooming off into the mist like street cars passing a down- explained buckle for were town street corner. One every four or five minutes Changed into overalls, I climb-| ed wp an eight-foot ladder and inte my ship. Flight Engineer L. E. Eichenlaub, of Mt. Vernon, Washington, took my hat-box and weekend-bag up past the dusty { flour sacks to the crew mpartment Flour heavier than a house- wife would guess. The ten tons only a re secK at on the lower bunk in what the crew call their bedroom, just behind the radio controls. It was strewn with parachutes and oth- er gear No seat belts here,” said Engi- meer Eichenlaub, “just hold on.” Before I knew it, we were in the a Dense fog streamed past the port-hole window. Then sun- yhine came pouring in. We were wp 500 feet and it was quite clear. Lieutenant Gunior grade) G. W. Kimmons was flying on a beam: He made it seem easy. He said he » long way from home in Akron, Ohio, and even farther from his last navy assignment— fying between Honolulu and co-pilot, Ensign of Gary, Nebras- his engineer had come r together in a transferred Pa- quadron. They were the t Navy crew to cross the At- to join the airlife. ey had one night out in I but mostly for two months t vi been contending with G uw cold and fog. Their nm had 12 planes and had f 40 flights to Berlin He and ths Nomber , ka nd et record n 24 hours | asked if we were sure of be- ng able to land at Tempelhof Berlin, because weather eports from there hadn't been uring and we would ar- after dark. The young pilot arinned They tell us that if the ceiling than 500 feet, the landing at a pilot’s own discte- tion.” he said. “My own limit is 400 feet. As far as I'm concerned, there re always three VIPs ny co-pilot and my engineer » all very impor- tant persons. If it’s less than 400, over to Fassberg in the That flour back only a minimum field ir te ea rive 8 les tone we'll British Zone there worth rish Over Fulda, I was given a hance to broadcast our identifi- stion and position signal to a tation a nice change to hear an's Voice on our commu- tion ystem,” Lieut. Kim- It make 0 urse. somebody may ust an imitation and i sutioned Ensign Nom- y concluded the signal R when a baritone through my ear: He Babe, when did you tia? proved the sys- arkable clarity, at tf California accents 4 ad set before we Berlin after 100 minutes Any other city might with lights. But t of Berlin was dark. Airlift emu precious here and elec- t skimped fs GCA—ground con- spproach—started direct- We circled accord- t nstructions. A steady of precise information the radio — altitude, headings, and rate of ave janced pelt ‘ ally ver Landing in misty darkness, GCA, impressed me as 4 iriving blindfolded a bee truck at top speed down a we untain grade \ ushed downward at two { white, yellow and red shts, marking the Tempelhof standing up cling- a metal railing, and nore exciting than a roller GCA vce oy. | was tly t a correction in fraction of the, . The big C-54 was roaring to go with deck. The airmen politely over- hat, but they firmly outlawed 1 ee et ALMA DeLUCE ... . Got a lift to Berlin. our descent: “Level off! You're 60 feet too low.” The pilot pulled the nose up for just a moment. GCA okayed it. Then we plunged downward -again. We™touched the runway with- out the slightest perceptible jar. The co-pilot strained at the brakes to shorten our run. We curved off to a side-strip in the wake of a yellow jeep marked! “Follow me.” } The engineer pushed open the rear door. An Army truck swarm- ing with German workmen plus a couple of military police back- | ed up in a drizzling rain. i Another load of flour from Op- | eration Vittles was through the! Russian blockade. ~ Who Knows? 1. Who ‘was called China’s “George Washington?” 2. Which is longest, the U. S. Atlantic or Pacific coastline? 3. What is the largést bone in the human body? 4. Can you Wheeler Wilcox? 5. Where are U. S. postage stamps made? 6. On what continent is Pata- gonia? 7. What is the minimum age for a member of the U. S. House of Representatives? ( 8. By what people was Connec- ticut first settled? 9. Who was Bathsheba’s , fa- | mous son? 10. Can you identify: Cathay, Hellas, Muscovy, Mesopotamia? The Answers 1. Sun Yat-sen. 2. Atlantic 1,888 miles as compared with 1,366. 3. The femur—thigh bone. 4. Populare American poetess, who died in 1919. 5. 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