Bidspirit auction | 20th Anniv of the Berlin

20th Anniv of the Berlin Airlift Signed AVM B Yarde and Air Com R Waite involved. 24th June 1968 BFPS 45 20th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. Personally Signed by Signed by Air Vice Marshal Yarde1940 - 45 Served in France, Malaya and Middle East, 31 Jan 1942 Senior Directing Staff, RAF Wing, Middle East Staff School, Haifa. 20 Apr 1945 Deputy Director of Bomber Operations. 1946 Senior Director, RAF Staff College. Jul 1947: Officer Commanding, RAF Gatow. PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE Berlin Airlift of 1948. after the Russian blockade the city. As Commander of RAF Station Gatow, Derlin he handled more than 900 aircraft movements a day at the peak of ''Operation Plainfare'. Also Personally Signed by Air Commodore R Waite CB, CBE Served in WW11 1939 - 45, in First Lord's Operations Room, Admiralty and Air Ministry and Commanded No 224 Sqn S. H. A. E. F. 1944, 2nd TAF 1945. HQ Central Communications Chief Air Division Berlin 1947. Devised and Organised the Air Life Operations to Berlin 1948 - 49. Assistant Chief of Staff Allied Air Forces, Central Europe, 1951 - 53.