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Future of Historic Airport Has Berlin Divided Again
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jan 01, 2007 12:35pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Jan 01, 2007 12:35pm |
| Description | Tempelhof Won Fame as Nerve Center of Postwar Allied Airlift
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, January 1, 2007; Page A07
BERLIN -- On sunny afternoons in the German capital, heads swivel skyward as a throwback DC-3 airplane rumbles overhead on its way to Tempelhof airport, just as it did six decades ago during the military operation that kept half of a divided and broken city alive at the start of the Cold War.
These days, the restored Candy Bomber -- one of the Allied aircraft beloved by West Berlin's children for dropping bags of chocolate and raisins from the skies, as well as delivering hundreds of thousands of tons of life's essentials -- carries only tourists seeking to relive the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49. But its timeworn flight path may be nearing an end.
Tempelhof airport, designed for Adolf Hitler as the largest building in Europe and later converted by the Americans and British into the nerve center of the Airlift, has been sentenced to close after more than 70 years in operation. Politicians, judges and airline officials are squabbling over the exact date, but for now the last passenger is scheduled to depart in October 2008. |
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