Attending the dedication ceremony for the Luftbrucke Memorial are, left to right: Colonel (COL) Ronnie Peoples, commander, 435th Tactical Airlift Wing; General (GEN) Charles L. Donnelly Jr., commander in chief, US Air Force Europe; Ronald Lauder, deputy assistant secretary of defense for NATO and European affairs; and Colonel Lafitte of France. The monument, a symbolic western bridge, is a replica of the Berlin Airlift Memorial at Berlin`s Tempelhof Central Airport and is dedicated to the men who died during the 1948-1949 Berlin airlift
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Rhein-Main Air Base
Country: West Germany (FRG)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Fernando Serna
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
26/06/1985
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