Photo by Stephen Perez | U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden | 09.12.2024
Representatives from the Luftbrücke Frankfurt - Berlin association speak with members of the U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden Postal Service Center staff in front of a vintage Army jeep outside the Postal Service Center on Lucius D. Clay Kaserne, Wiesbaden, Germany, Sept. 12, 2024. The jeep was part of a static display owned by Dr. John Provan, a historian with close ties to the Garrison and......
Photo by Alexandra Shea | 300th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.16.2024
U.S. Air Force Cpl. Ralph Dionne poses for a photo while stationed at Westover Air Force Base, Massachusetts, in 1948, shortly before volunteering for a temporary duty in Germany. Once in Germany, Dionne provided aircraft maintenance to U.S. and allied forces cargo aircraft participating in the Berlin Airlift. (Photo courtesy of Ralph G. Dionne)...
Photo by Alexandra Shea | 300th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.16.2024
A Douglas C-47 Skytrain, participating in the Berlin Airlift, parked at Wiesbaden Air Base, Germany, is loaded with food and supplies for the people of the Soviet blockaded city of Berlin Aug. 18, 1948. Soviet troops established a blockade through the center of Berlin, cutting off contact with the rest of the country to make Eastern Germany part of Soviet territory. (Photo courtesy of Byers,......
Photo by Alexandra Shea | 300th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.16.2024
U.S. cargo planes line up at the Templehof Airport in Germany, August 1948, as part of the Berlin Airlift. Ralph Dionne, a C-54 Skymaster mechanic, worked at Templehof while on temporary duty providing aircraft maintenance to U.S. and allied forces cargo planes between deliveries of essential supplies and food to the people of Berlin living under a Soviet blockade. (Photo courtesy of the Harry......
Photo by Alexandra Shea | 300th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.16.2024
A U.S. Army sign that hung around the perimeter of Berlin , that was occupied by U.S. forces after World War II ended is displayed at the Museum of Aviation collocated at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, Aug. 16, 2024. At the end of the war, Soviet troops established a blockade dividing Berlin into two halves leading to the U.S. and allied forces delivering essential food and supplies by cargo......
Photo by Alexandra Shea | 300th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.16.2024
Ralph Dionne, left center, speaks with U.S. Air Force Col. Rod Grunwald, individual mobilization augmentee to Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex commander, about the base’s mission of providing programmed depot maintenance to the Air Force and Navy’s fleets of F-15 Eagle fighter jets, C-130 Hercules, C-17 Globemaster, and C-5 Galaxy cargo aircraft Aug. 16, 2024, at Robins Air Force Base,......
Photo by Alexandra Shea | 300th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.16.2024
Baerbel “BiBi” LaBlanc speaks to a hanger full of attendees about her lifer growing up outside the Soviet occupied city of Berlin during the Museum of Aviation’s Heritage Series “Remembering Berlin in the Cold War,” Aug. 16, 2024, at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. LaBlanc also toured the base and saw a variety of cargo planes for scheduled program depot maintenance. (U.S. Army photo......
Photo by Alexandra Shea | 300th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.16.2024
U.S. Air Force Col. Deedrick Reese, Robins Installation and 78th Air Base Wing commander, presents Ralph Dionne, a Berlin Airlift veteran, a coin before the start of a tour of Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, Aug. 16, 2024, at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. Dionne, now 96 years old, enlisted in the Air Force and volunteered for a temporary duty assignment in Germany where he provided aircraft......
