Archive photo of the day
ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAYNewspaper war, 1948
Stars and Stripes
January 30, 2018
©Stars and StripesWiesbaden, Germany, October, 1948: Rolls of newsprint are loaded on an airlift transport plane, bound for Berlin. One hundred tons of paper were being flown to the blockaded city by the Air Force every week, as allocated by Gen. Lucius Clay, to allow newspapers of the three Western sectors to combat the Soviet-controlled Berlin press.