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FLEW FIRST AIRalt;ylt;tca;aLIFT IN BERLINo1First Lt. Henry H. Stick, NowaiSpending Leave Of Absencei 5Here, Tells Of His ExperihnTclt;clt;fc\ences Overseas“Things were pretty rugged at first. We lost a lot of sleep and due to the lack of sufficient pilots were assigned to d%y and night flights.” Those were the words used by First Lt. Henry H. Stick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W Stick, 504 York street, in describing tod*./ the initial air lift liight on June 26, 1948, through the corridor over the Russian zone to supply the U. S. Army post in Berlin and fill the urgent needs of the some 2,000.000 Germans blockaded in the city's three western sectors.IILt. Stick confirmed that his subsequent airlift missions to the German capital after the arrival of more pilots became a “good deal” and were uneventful and routine in nature. * *Asi0v.ndLntiCLt. Stick piloted one of a group of C-47 transport planes used to fly the first supplies into the beleaguered city, landing at Tempelhof airport. *Prior to assignment to the airlift♦ Continued On Page Four)
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Hanover Evening Sun
Hanover, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Apr 07, 1949
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