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FLEW FIRST AIRLIFT IN BERLINen adyoto an allofFirst Lt. Henry H. Stick, Now an Spending Leave Of Absence _ Here, Tells Of His Experi- he ences Overseas n*‘T\coiScCOI“Things were pretty rugged at first. We lost a lot of sleep and due to the lack of sufficient pilots were assigned to dsy and night flights.” *01Those were the words used by First Lt. Henry II Stick, son of Mr. ^nd Mrs. Henry W. Stick. 504 Yorkstreet, in describing tod../ the initial air lift flight on June 26. 1948, through the corridor over the Hus- Hi Man zone to supply the U. S. Army \ post in Berlin and All the urgent needs of the some 2,000.000 Germans blockaded in the city’s three western sectors.Lt. Stick confirmed that his sub- Ai sequent airlift missions to the Ger- sti man capital after the arrival of oli more pilots became a “good deal” ws and were uneventful and routine in ninature. . ':J?y % * t - ^Lt. Stick piloted one of a group Dt of C-47 transport planes used to fly nc the first supplies into the be- tic leaguered city, landing at Tempelhof Glt;airport.Prior to assignment to the airlift coto(Continued On Page Four) si
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Hanover Evening Sun
Hanover, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Apr 07, 1949
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