Statistics of Berlin Air Lift
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LONDON, Jan. 6. Thfe British air li'ft headquarter§ iri Berlin anriounce thaf up to midday "on January 3 British -.aireraft had fioiyn 36,831 sorties ahd 12,331,030 miles on Berlin, air lift operations. The following are the total deliveries in net metric tons to the German -economy : British 158,269.7 tons, equalling 26 per cent. of the total. United States 421,072.9 tons, equalling 74 per cent. of the total. Total 579,942.6 metric tons. Since the air lift hegan 8165.6 gross metric tons of German industrial products and 9663.1 gross metric tons of German parcel mail have been sent Westward out of Berlin.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 January 1949, Page 5
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