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THE CHAIRMANS COLUMN Peterborough PE3 9XZ NEWSLETTER No.39 Website:- www.bbaa-airlift.org.uk Formed 9th September 1994 December 2013 Chairman, Geoffrey W. Smith Committee: Secretary: Mrs Hannah Angel. Treasurer: Mrs Janet Howard Media & Website: Colin R. Cottle, David Hildred: NMA Laison & Ceremonial Editor:- Geoff Smith. 12 Tyesdale Court, Bretton, THE CHAIRMANS COLUMN Peterborough PE3 9XZ. Tel:- 01733 262599 Introduction. Email:- [email protected] Website:- www.bbaa-airlift.org.uk Tempelhof Airport: The people of Berlin are delighted with their new, yet old-established recreation area. The former Tempelhof airport is now a public park. Not for the first time in its history. Originally the Tempelhofer Feld was a parade ground. At the weekends and on public holidays, as soon as the military cleared from the site, the locals would come along in their thousands to Tempelhof to enjoy their leisure time. Whole families would come with their baskets full of food, deckchairs and sunshades to have picnics there. BBAA Website: The BBAA Website has now had more than 10,650 hits. The numbers of people looking at the site in the last twelve months have increased rapidly. We now receive numerous enquiries and complimentary comments via this route. Several people have said that they find it very informative & most useful when looking for information & details about the Berlin Airlift. Fassberg Berlin Airlift Museum. We have heard from Paul Hicks ,the Curator at the Fassberg Berlin Airlift Museum that they have been closed for the winter period. The museum had more than 8,500 visitors in 2012 and the construction works for the new car park has now been completed and is ready for the start of the 2013 season. The museum has also appointed a new Liaison officer, Malcolm Cross who will also be involved in finding participants for the TREATY exercises to be held at Fassberg The Allied Museum, Berlin: A report from Herr Bernd Von Kostka at the Allied Museum in Berlin says that the Handley-Page Hastings they have on display at the Museum was cleaned and repainted last year. They are looking forward to seeing BBAA members in 2014 for the 65th Anniversary of the end of the Berlin Blockade. Remembering the 28th June 1948: The 28th June 2013 was the 65th anniversary of the start of the British contribution to the Berlin Airlift when Royal Air Force Dakota aircraft flew from RAF Wunstorf in the British Zone to RAF Gatow with supplies for Berlin. We were hoping that we could have marked the occasion with a Remembrance Ceremony at the BBAA Memorial located at the National Memorial Arboretum, but with the improvement works now under way there, this Ceremony was notTHE possible. CHAIRMAN’S COLUMN Air Service, Berlin may replace the crashed DC3 Dakota: Air Service - Berlin are hoping to raise the necessary funds to be able to replace the Dakota that crashed on the 19th June 2010 at a construction site at Berlin Schoenefeld. The replacement Dakota would be from Air Atlantique based at Coventry and funds to help buy the aircraft are being supported by the Berlin retailer KA-DE-WE selling 1,000 stuffed Teddy Bears dressed in a Air Service Berlin uniform. Geoffrey W. Smith. Chairman. ============================================================================== THE COMMITTEE WISH ALL MEMBERS OF THE BBAA A MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR Page 122 BRITISH BERLIN AIRLIFT ASSOCIATION . WEEKENDSecretary’s REUNION Notes 2014 The Weekend Reunion will be held at the St John’s Hotel, Solihull, near Birmingham from Thursday 18th to Sunday 21st September 2014 If another application form is required please contact Janet Howard at 80 Park Street, Kings Cliffe, Peterborough PE8 6XN. A booking form will also be published on the BBAA Website at www.bbaa-airlift.org.uk. ————————————————————————————–———————————————————— SUBSCRIPTIONS Members are reminded that subscriptions are due on the 1st January Inside This Issue each year. The Annual Rate is now £15.00, wherever situated. Chairman’s Column - Page 1. Cheques should be made payable to the BBAA and sent to:- New BBAA Secretary, Mrs Hannah Angel - Page 2. The BBAA Treasurer, Mrs Janet Howard, Weekend Reunion 2014 - Page 2 80 Park Street, King’s Cliffe, Subscriptions - Page 2. Peterborough PE8 6XN BBAA Email Database - Page 2 However, if you wish to pay by Bankers Order. The details are as A Soldier’s Airlift by G.V. Freeman - Page 3. follows:- Vince Gavin - An appreciation - Page 3. Payable to: Berlin Airlift. On the Fringe - Terry Crowley - Page 4.. British Berlin Airlift Association. Proposed redevelopment of the BBAA Memorial site at the National Memorial Arboretum, - Page 5. Bank:- Lloyds/TSB Bank PLC Maidenhead. May 12th 2014 - 65th Anniversary in Berlin - Page 5 Account No. 1223532 Legasee 65th Anniversary event at Flixton - Page 5 Sort Code: 30-95-36 Centre Spread Photo’s - Pages 6/7. —————————————————————————————— BBAA Shop details - Page 8. EMAIL DATABASE 2012 Annual General Meeting at Horwood House - Page 9 An evening at RAF Brize Norton - Page 9. We have now set up a database of members Email addresses and Derek Roskell - An Appreciation - Page 9 telephone numbers. This will enable us to contact members more Aircraft & Airbases Booklet - Page 10. easily and also help to reduce the cost of mailing letters etc. 10 Years of the BBAA & Briefing Booklets - Page 10 Many members have indicated their willingness to be included in the National Memorial Arboretum Appeal Fund and database. Customer Service volunteers required - Page 10 If you are willing to have your Email address on our database would Royal Air Force Station Gatow, Berlin - A brief history you please contact Colin Cottle the co-ordinator. of the British Airlift Airbase - Pages 11/12 His Email address is: [email protected] ————————————————————————————————————————————————– BRIEFING BOOKLET We have upgraded our popular Briefing Booklet on the Berlin Airlift. It is now 16 pages and includes photos of the BBAA Memorial at Alrewas, together with some of the British Airlift aircraft. It also includes details of Berlin Airlift museums and lists the British and Commonwealth casualties. The cost is £3.00 each, ————————————————————————————————————————————————– NEW BBAA SECRETARY: We welcome our new Secretary, Mrs Hannah Angel who has taken over from John Collier. John was a founder member of the Association and had been the Association Secretary for many years, having taken over the position for a second time during the past few years. Hannah, whose late husband Raymond was a loyal supporter of the British Berlin Airlift Association and both of them have attended many of the BBAA events both un the UK and in Germany. Our thanks to John for his contribution and also his knowledge of Airlift history and we wish him well and a speedy recovery from his recent medical problems. OBITUARIES Derrick Roskell - Gatow - FMA - Flight Lines - Died 26th February 2013 Ken P. Petrie - Buckeburg, Schleswigland - RASC/RASO - Died 22nd February 2013. Jack Simpson - Schleswigland - Pilot Hastings aircraft - Died June 2013. Ervin John Eddy - Lubeck - Pilot No. 10 Squadron - Died July 2013. Vincent Gavin - Wunstorf/Fassberg/Lubeck - Signaller No. 62 & 27 Squadrons - Died July 2013. Alain Jackman - Wunstorf - F/Eng - Halton aircraft - British American Air Services - Died July 2013 Air Marshal Sir John Curtiss KCB KBE FRAeS - Wunstorf - Navigator - No 59 Sqn - Died 15th September 2013 Page 311 BRITISH BERLIN AIRLIFT ASSOCIATION A SOLDIER’S BERLIN AIRLIFT By G.V. Freeman - 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers. In 1947 the Battalion was stationed outside Dűsseldorf in Germany. We were stationed at a place called Hübbel­ rath, in a former German Flak Kaserne (Anti Aircraft Barracks). Here we did all things relevant to the daily duties of a British Army Infantry Regiment until one day I was told to report to the Regimental Sergeant Major’s office. He said “Pack your kit, you are off to Heidelberg attached to the U.S. Army Headquarter’s Euro command.” I was to be a Driver to Major J.R.Orr Royal Welch Fusiliers who was the British Army Liaison officer to the U.S. Army. We were not aware at the time that big manoeuvres were taking place, so we had advance warning of what was to come. On our return to our Regiment we were then posted to Berlin and settled down to the routine of army life in the city. The Russian soldiers that we met were a hostile suspicious lot. There was no Berlin Wall at this time although the city was divided into four sectors, American, French, British and Russian (Soviet). When the Berlin Blockade began we now realised that we were cut off from the three Western zones, British, French and American. All entry and exit points were closed except Checkpoint Charlie which we all knew about. We got used to many aircraft flying overhead, Dakotas, Vikings, Yorks and Skymasters and I believe that there were some rare Tudor aircraft as well. I flew out of and back to Berlin as a Courier on a Skyways Dakota. The weather during the winter of 1948 was simply terrible and I believe that there was a number of aircraft crashes. Russian Yak fighters beat up our barracks to let us know that they knew where we were. When the Airlift finished were were posted overseas and I finished my regular service by being flown home in a Skyways “York” transport aircraft from Kingston in Jamaica with other troops due for “demob” . We flew home via a stopover in Gander, Newfoundland and eventually landed at Bovingdon airfield in the U.K. I was then demobbed at Woking in Surrey with 57 days Demobilisation pay and overseas pay. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Vince Gavin - Died July 2013 Vince was born 90 years ago, in rural County Armagh, and left school at the age of fourteen.
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