Tuhia he haere tonu mō tēnei whitianga - I te wā o Berlin Blockade
I tīmata i te Pipiri 1948, kotahi B-29 squadron, te 353d Bombardment Squadron i te 301st Bombardment Group, i noho mo te wa poto ki Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base i Tiamana. Ko ētahi atu kapa e rua o te rōpū i tukuna ki Tiamana i Hōngongoi. I tono te Minita o waho, a Ernest Bevin ki a Truman kia tonoa he kaipuke pahū ki te UK hei whakapakari i ngā parenga. Hei whakautu, i tukuna te 28th Bombardment Group mai i te Rapid City Air Force Base i South Dakota ki RAF Scampton i Lincolnshire, me te 307th Bombardment Group mai i MacDill Air Force Base i Florida i tukuna ki RAF Marham me RAF Waddington i Lincolnshire. E toru ngā kapa o ia rōpū, tekau ngā B-29. Ko te B-29 tuatahi i pa ki te 17 o Hurae, i whakahaerehia e Colonel John B. Henry Jr., te rangatira o te 28th Bombardment Group, i powhirihia e Air Vice-Marshal Charles Guest, te Air Officer Commanding No. 1 Group RAF. I whakawhiwhia e te RAF te whakaaetanga, i runga i te turanga kore noa, mo te USAF ki te whakatuwhera ano i te whare putunga USAAF o te pakanga i RAF Burtonwood, a, i muri tata mai i te 2,500 nga kaimahi o te USAF i reira.