Fig. 5: ›For sale: slightly used airline, one well equipped airfield, present owners going out of business.‹ Group Captain Brian C. Yarde (Commanding Officer RAF), Col. John E. Barr (Tempelhof Commander), Admiral John Wilkes, and Governing Mayor Ernst Reuter celebrating the end of the Berlin Blockade in May 1949. While Americans and Germans were relieved, the historical significance of this crisis for the transatlantic partnership remains under discussion to this day.
(Landesarchiv Berlin, Photo: N.N., F Rep. 290 [02], No. 0255844)