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Found this reference to USAF fighters escorting Kennedy on his famous visit to West Berlin.
www.panam.org
I had always assumed that no Western combat aircraft had flown through the air corridors to Berlin during the Cold War.
There were plans for US, UK and French fighters based in West Germany to protect the corridors but did they ever do so?
A Dangerous Game
The dust had hardly settled after the Third Reich had been crushed by Allied armies when another war began. Soon the brief bonhomie between the victorious Western armies and Soviet forces that had jointly destroyed the German war machine gave way to suspicion and political maneuvering to cement...
I had always assumed that no Western combat aircraft had flown through the air corridors to Berlin during the Cold War.
There were plans for US, UK and French fighters based in West Germany to protect the corridors but did they ever do so?
