U.S. TO TRAIN 100 CREWS MONTHLY FOR BERLIN LIFT
(11 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Oct. 1. An announcement by the Air Force that about 100 transport plane crews will be specially trained each month for the Berlin air-lift is taken as a hint that the United States expects to keep the lift operating for a long time. The pilots will be trained in a "little corridor” laid out at Great Falls, Montana, which will simulate the 20-mile-wide air lanes through which the pilots must fly into Berlin. Ironically, the site selected for the “little corridor” served as the aerial port of embarkation for hundreds of combat planes which the United States ferried for Russia in wartime to stiffen the Soviet resistance.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22758, 2 October 1948, Page 5
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