• This rather battered document is a bill showing the amount of material and supplies airlifted to West Berlin.
  
• The whole operation was called Operation Plainfare. With so many aircraft flying so many flights it was a complex and dangerous operation. The relentless flying also took its toll on the pilots, the aircraft and even the runways. One US air base actually had to have 200 engineers running constant repairs.
  
• The Americans moved the most goods because they had more planes and bigger aircraft. They also expanded into one of the British air bases near Munich.
  
• The RAF tied up most its fleet of transport aircraft in the Berlin Airlift. There were also private contractors hired by the government to help with the operation.