Key Information
Reference code
BERLIN AIRLIFT 24
Title
Interview with John Passanante, US Air Force, [1997-1998]
Date(s)
- [1997 - 1998] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
26pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of interview with John Passanante, US Air Force, describing his service maintaining aircraft based at Rhine-Main, West Germany during the airlift, 1948-1949. Comments on conditions in post-war Germany, the black market, visits to Berlin, flight routines, the 'Easter Parade' maximum effort campaign and US 'patriotic fever'. 26pp