This online exhibition features images and experiences of various members of the SAAF and RAF and RAAF.
 

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The second SAAF contingent being briefed on the situation upon arrival in Great Britain  

Front: Jenks Jenkins (RAF) Pat Clulow, Tom Condon, Johnnie Eloff, Mickey Lamb, "Shadow" Atkinson and Joe Joubert.

Back: Jannie Blaauw, Piet Gotze, Wilhelm Steytler, Vic de Villiers, Mike Pretorius, Duncan Ralston, Nic Nicholas, Jack Davis and Dormie Barlow

These were some of the men who were to fly 2500 sorties and deliver 8333 Tons of humanitarian aid into Berlin under very dangerous conditions. The Soviets flew balloons in the corridors, fired anti aircraft guns in close proximity to the approaching aircraft and "buzzed" them with fighter aircraft.

"The Berlin Airlift was the most sophisticated, complicated and precision operation ever executed on such a large scale in the air"
The late Col Peter McGregor – December 1988.
 
 

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