 is each able to lift 10 tons of coal and food in peacetime as carefully as it carried 55 wounded men in wartime. We reported promptly, and our country was proud of its air force on a mission of mercy and international significance. Some of us came to Frankfurt in the American zone to the air force base called Rhein-Main. You know, those trucks were waiting for us. Transportation Corps did a colossal job. We got down in a hurry to give them a lift. Rhein-Main looked like a certain Pacific beach during the war. Only this stuff was much more organized. Somehow, it all went into our airplanes. Biggest item was coal for the utilities. It was packed in GI barracks bags. Second biggest item was made into pumpernickel, shelf-stangle, and cooking. We call it bread. Then medicines. Every ounce of cargo was checked. Of course, there was GI soap for the GIs and milk for the innocent sufferers of every disaster, the kids. Rigid inspection.