Postwar trouble. The people lived in comparative peace. It was showing results. I was impressed. Subways taking people to work and trolleys taking people home. Hospitals had milk for new babies. There was even music in the park. Everyone forgot or took for granted electricity, roads. Until june 1948, when sudden the trains stopped. Traffic between berlin and the western zones was banned. Canceled timetables. Then trade. Walls of words. And orders blockaded the city. The blockade cut electric power and cut out 75 of the lights. People used candles, if they could find them. Movement in and out of the city stopped. Factories now manufactured hunger and fear. Vegetables were planted in the parks and trading in the alleys. In addition to 2. 5 million germans, the blockade affected 5000 frenchmen, 10,000 englishmen, and 10,000 americans. This crisis was immense. The same morning the train stopped, they woke me up. Early. I had to fly a special run with high priority military. Nobody said tha
CHAMPION Veteran U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Joseph Patrick Was Jr. never had a bullet fired at him during the nearly four years he was in France and Germany