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The Berlin Airlift: Messages from General Clay Folder

Below are descriptions of the documents held in the Messages from General Clay Folder. Hyperlinks will lead you to the actual document, and indicates how many pages that particular item is.

  • Top secret communications, from General Clay to Omar Bradley, concerning the downing of British passenger airplane, which crashed with a fighter airplane driven by "fight happy" Soviet pilot. The communications, from the President's Secretary's Files, are not dated and discuss circumstances surrounding the crash, the fact that two American lives were lost, and how to handle the situation politically and in terms of future passenger flights. (2 pages)
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