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BERLIN AIRLIFT VETS RETURN TO GERMANY FOR ANNIVERSARY
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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June 26, 2008
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The U.S. Air Force issued the following press release:
By Staff Sgt. Julie WeckerleinSecretary of the Air Force Public Affairs
For 50 years, Dub Southers recalled the grueling hours he worked at an air base in northern Germany at the start of the Berlin Airlift, not the historical significance of what he helped achieve as a flight engineer and crew chief.
He remembered well the stacks of coal being shipped in from local coal fields, the 196 missions he flew over Berlin and being a 20-year-old Air Force staff sergeant keeping the C-54 Skymaster aircraft flying.
"Coal was our basic cargo," said Mr. Southers, 81, of Texas. "Occasionally, we flew flour, but I can't recall anything other than ...