100 U.S. Plane Crews Training Each Month for Berlin Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 31. The United States Air Force made the announcement to-day that about one hundred transport plane crews will be specially trained each month for the Berlin air-lift. This announcement is taken as a hint that the United States expects to keep the lift operating for a, long time to come. The pilots will be trained in a “little corridor,” which has ben laid out at-Great Falls in Montana. This corridor, will be similar to the twenty-mile wide air lanes through which the pilots must fly into Berlin. Ironically, the site selected for the “Little Corridor” has served as the aerial port of embarkation for hundreds of the combat planes which the United States ferried from Russia in wartime to stiffen th e Soviet resistance against Germany.
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Grey River Argus, 2 October 1948, Page 5
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