Berlin civilians

Photographs from a ‘pictorial record of Operation Plainfare’, dated 27 July 1949. (Catalogue ref: AIR 55/118)

Britain’s ‘Operation Plainfare’ was launched on June 28, 1948, two days after the United States launched ‘Operation Vittles’.

Transcript:

Caption under first photo:

FOOD BEING LOADED INTO AIRCRAFT

Caption under second photo:

PASSENGERS FROM BERLIN

 

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