Berlin Air Lift Related Photos

This collection features previously unpublished photographs from the bandleader’s personal archive, reflecting his lifelong passion for the Berlin Airlift and music.

On this blog of photos you will see a picture on the first row of pictures, displaying a patchwork of three photos from 1990 of the young band leader, working for the U.S. Army, HQ Berlin, CFFMD Finance Office, non-military VAT clerk 1990-1991. Next to it you see a grand piano holding an AWARD from Washington D.C. (JFK Award, 3rd price)

It also includes images of friends from the American postwar reenactment community meeting in Normandy, along with some of his photographs of eyewitnesses to Operation Vittles, the historic Berlin Airlift of 1948–49, e.g. "The Candy Bomber" Col. Gail Halverson (RIP) and "The Candy Girl" Vera Mitchrich (RIP).