On December 17, 2019, the First Flight Society honors a 99 -year-old WWII Veteran, the 70th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift and the 116th anniversary of Powered Flight.
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- “OPERATION VITTLES” (Berlin Airlift) — Berlin youngsters who live near the Tempelhof Air Force Base, where the U.S. Air Force transport planes unload their airlift supplies, play at a game called “Luftbrucke” (air bridge). They use model American planes which are sold in German toy shops throughout the western sector of Berlin.
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- U.S. Navy Douglas R4D and U.S. Air Force C-47 aircraft unload at Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Airlift. The first aircraft is a C-47A-90-DL (s/n 43-15672).
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- German civilians unload supplies from a Douglas Dakota of the Royal Air Force Transport Command at RAF Gatow during the Berlin Airlift, 1948.
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- Berlin Civilians watching an airlift plane land at Templehof Airport, 1948.
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- US Air Force pilot Gail Halvorsen, who pioneered the idea of dropping candy bars and bubble gum with handmade miniature parachutes, which later became known as “Operation Little Vittles”.
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- A U.S. Air Force Douglas C-54 Skymaster making a “Little Vittles” candy drop (note the parachutes below the tail of the C-54) on approach to a Berlin airfield. Aircrews dropped candy to children during the Berlin Airlift.
