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    Engineering the world’s most famous airlift in Berlin – 75 years later

    BERLIN-TEMPELHOF AIRPORT, BERLIN, GERMANY

    06.12.2023

    Photo by Christopher Gardner 

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District

    German women loading fine gravel on bucket type conveyer feeding asphalt mixer at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin on August 5, 1948. U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Norman Delbridge, who oversaw runway construction at Tempelhof and Tegel airports early in his career, explained to historians that most of the thousands of workers on site of the airports were women due to the lack of available men in Berlin at the time. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Office of History)

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    Date Taken: 06.12.2023
    Date Posted: 06.21.2023 08:45
    Photo ID: 7870405
    VIRIN: 480805-A-WZ074-002
    Resolution: 3264x2832
    Size: 742.59 KB
    Location: BERLIN-TEMPELHOF AIRPORT, BERLIN, DE

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