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CONSTRUCTION OF NEW AIRSTRIP AT TEMPELHOF AIRBASE, BERLIN, GERMANY Part 1
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Signal Corps 111 ADC 7248 ADC 7248 SOURCE: AFCF (M-3037) FILM: ARCH & APC MP 994' ea Silent RG 111 Accession III_NAV_210 CONSTRUCTION OF NEW AIRSTRIP AT TEMPELHOF AIRBASE Berlin, Germany 3 - 14 September 1948 VS, Col Whitaker, Berlin Military Post Engineer, chatting with German engineers on airstrip. MS, the Colonel inspecting a piece of construction machinery. Col Whitaker with the German engineers from Tegel Airport watching the new construction. MCU, the colonel speaking to one of the construction men. LSs, the first planes taking off from the new airstrip. LS, MS,CU, German worker spreading out stone for the new strip. Steam roller flattening a layer of stone. CU, huge roller going over crushed stone. Men working pump on machine as another workman sprays tar on the bed. LMS, CUs, men spreading asphalt. L & MS, truck dumping asphalt; the men shovelling it up and spreading it. Steam roller in operation; putting the finishing coating on the asphalt binder. Sequence: Workmen laying steel mats. VS, airstrip shortly before completion. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/mle
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