ZUM4859448: Jul 07, 1953 - American food help for Eastern Berlin The first convoy of food arrived today in Berlin. O.P.S. (Left) The first truck is controlled at check point Dreilinden. (Right) The first plane is unloaded at Tempelhof airbase., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4859679: Jul 07, 1953 - YOUTH RESCUED BY HELIETER AFTER Falling OVER CLIFF. A youth had fallen over a cliff at Kynance Cove, beauty spot near The Lizard, Cornwall. He lay upon a rocky islet, partly submerged at high tide. His brothers and coastguards could not move him, he was so badly injured. Coastguards called the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose, and ten minutes later a helicopter was hovering over the spot. The Air Station doctor, Surgeon Lieut. Robinson, was lowered on a cable and gave the injured lad, 18-year-old David Kaye, morphia. Then, on a Mae West, David was hauled up to the helicopter by electric winch. A few minutes later he was being cared for at the Air Station, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4859739: Jul. 07, 1953 - The Home-Made” Tank” In Which Eight Czechs Broke Through The Iron Curtain.. Week after week for two years a young English mechanic in Pilsen, collected pieces of scrap iron and steel. Secretly at night he fashioned the crap into a replica of an armoured vehicle of the Czech-army.. Then-the construction tank completed and driving his own home made armoured car - he brought eight people to safety to the West - in one of the most amazing escapes from Czechoslovakia yet recorded.. They were escorted to the U.S. Military authorities. Keystone Photo Shows: - Mr. Uhlik and his home-made armoured car - after his” screening” by the U.S. Army authorities., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images