Berlin-Tempelhof Airport

which is a radio landing system.

So, you know, people, the pilot, you know, they're coming into Tempelhof Airport in Berlin.

They were also using it in London.

And it was like a beep, beep, beep, or a tone.

It's like something...

Templehof, not that place,

is it? Templehof, maybe, yeah.

It's something like 75,000, 80,000 capacity.

I mean, when we're on, I don't know, people are probably...

after

I deliver it? Well, how do I know? I've never been outside Templehof.

Well, you'll do it then.

You can't get me into Berlin.

They are on our side.

Where do you live?

Templehof, American

section.

If only our victors will keep their promises to us.

The Tempelhof Airport was one of the first major projects of the Third Reich.

When it was inaugurated in 1941, the monumental facility was considered the largest surface building in the world.

However, when the US Air Force took over the site on the 2nd of July 1945, the cleanup work was not complete.

And any number of other subjects we raise, like when we talk in depth about the Berlin Airlift, we're talking about, well, what are the non-kinetic uses of air power to achieve national objectives? And how can those be operationalized to achieve strategic advantage in a great power conflict? And we're doing

that at the Tempelhof Airport.

And we're doing it there.

Right.

The

Tempelhof Airport.

Yeah.

Yes.

General Lucius Clay wrote that Berlin had become a symbol of the American intent.

Picture Tempelhof Airfield at night.

Transport planes stand in a line with their lights on.

At the height of the airlift, the Office of the Historian says, a plane landed every forty-five seconds.

Item 2, $3.10, cab fare.

Templehof Airport, American Zone, to the Waldenstern Hotel, where I registered, sent my luggage to my room, then went on to the red granite pile called Police Headquarters on the Wilhelmstrasse.

Here, a sub-lieutenant saw my credentials, listened to my story, and ushered me to the proper Oberlieutenant.

Meissner, Wilhelm Meissner.

I'll read it to you.

Illness gone.

Arrived Templehof Airport this evening, 18 hours.

Yes, sir.