The Berlin Airlift- Vol. 3 The Men that made the Airlift work

by John Provan

Overview

In this volume, Dr. Provan provides the most complete listing known, of the names of individual airmen who were assigned the massive task of providing for Berlin’s survival during the Blockade between 1948 and 1949. Intended as an appendix to Volume 1-“the Berlin Airlift-the First Battle of the Cold War”, it includes the name some 12, 000 men and the units to which they were assigned. Family members, friends and historians can use this listing to locate relatives who were involved in this operation.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013701960
Publisher:	lzc
Publication date:	01/04/2012
Series:	The Berlin Airlift , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

John Provan III was born in 1956, in Steubenville, Ohio. His father, an Air Force Chief Master-Sergeant John Provan Jr., who was assigned to Germany for almost 20 years, where he grew up in the Kaiserslautern, Sembach and Rhein-Main areas. John has collected for more than 35 years and has amassed the largest private library on LTA, with over 1,200 books and 20,000 photos. His primary interest has evolved though, in now preserving the history of American Forces in Germany. Here alone, he has obtained some 250,000 images, films and sound recordings from 1945, to present
Provan obtained his B.A. from the University of Maryland in 1979. He wrote his M.A. thesis on the “German Airship during World War One” and PhD thesis on the “German Airship sheds”, both degrees from the University of Darmstadt. Dr. Provan has organized numerous exhibits and/or written books on various topics, to include: Thomas Edison, 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers, the Dornier Do-X, AFN-the American Forces Network, the Kinderlifts and the Berlin Airlift. He has also appeared on several TV documentaries; for the History Channel, HR, ZDF, A&E and AFN.
Dr. Provan, lives in Kelkheim /Ts., just outside of Frankfurt, with his wife Helga Küppers.