Transport Planes for suppliyng troops

[agentgb]

In Berlin, 2.2 Mio. people were supplied - that's much more than just an army. Most of these items you mention can be delivered easily via air, even spare parts for tanks - only whole vehicles could be a problem at that time.

The real problem in reality would be something different. It's extremely expensive to supply a whole army only via air. And you need a lot of planes for it - planes which you could need at other fronts. And these planes need a lot of fuel which is normally sparce in times of war.

Was that under the marshall plan? when east/west germany border was shut down in response to the west germany currency? Was it 40,000 tons a day they were flying in eventually?

 

[Premu]

Was that under the marshall plan? when east/west germany border was shut down in response to the west germany currency? Was it 40,000 tons a day they were flying in eventually?

It wasn't really connected to the Marshal plan - that was mostly financial aid anyway. And the deliveries peaked in 12 000 tons a day in the end (which is still a staggering amount). Overall 280 000 flights were done in ca. 15 months which is a huge logistic effort.

 

[agentgb]

It wasn't really connected to the Marshal plan - that was mostly financial aid anyway. And the deliveries peaked in 12 000 tons a day in the end (which is still a staggering amount). Overall 280 000 flights were done in ca. 15 months which is a huge logistic effort.

ahhhh thanks! yeah remember seeing somthing about it in a documentary, wasn't entirely sure, i actually thought. I guess Siege of Bastogne is another pretty decent example.