On the south side of the road.

Memorial comprises an inscribed bronze plaque mounted on a rough-hewn granite base, commemorating the pilots, maintenance, and supply personnel who supported missions by the "Candy Bombers" (also known locally as Rosinenbomber - literally "Raisin Bombers") to resupply Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade of Berlin during 1948-1949. 

The city of Wiesbaden installed this memorial along the outside wall of Wiesbaden Army Airfield in 1988 and moved it to its current location in 2025.

During the Berlin Airlift from June 1948 to September 1949, Wiesbaden Air Base, then the home of Headquarters U.S. Air Force in Europe (USAFE), served as a hub for around-the-clock flights to Tempelhof Airport in Berlin for Operation VITTLES.  C-47 Skytrains and C-54 Skymasters of the 60th Troop Carrier Group flew missions daily from Wiesbaden into the beleaguered city of Berlin, as part of a wider USAFE-led multinational Combined Airlift Task Force (CATF) operating from multiple locations. U.S. Air Force Major General William H. Tunner oversaw the CATF from Wiesbaden.  During one day's operations, more than 80 tons of food and supplies were airlifted from Wiesbaden.

In 1973, USAFE Headquarters relocated to Ramstein Air Base near Kaiserslautern. Since 1975, Wiesbaden Army Airfield - renamed Lucius D. Clay Kaserne in 2012 -- has housed various U.S. Army units, and currently hosts various military units and service organizations, including U.S. Army Europe and Africa Headquarters and Installation Management Command-Europe.

Source of information: en.wikipedia.org, home.army.mil, http://skaterbilder.de

Source of photos: James Yentz

1948 BERLINER LUFTBRÜCKE 1949

HIER STARTETEN UND LANDETEN

DIE ROSINENBOMBER: DURCH

DEREN SEGENSREICHE LAST DEN

BERLINERN ÜBER DIE BLOCKADE

HINWEGGEHOLFEN WURDE.

WIESBADEN GEDENKT DER OPFER

UND DANKT DEN HELFERINNEN

UND HELFERN.

English translation:

1948 BERLINER LUFTBRÜCKE 1949

IT WAS HERE THAT THE RAISIN

BOMBERS TOOK OFF AND LANDED:

WITH THEIR BLESSED LOAD

HELPING THE BERLINERS

OVERCOME THE BLOCKADE.

WIESBADEN REMEMBERS THE

VICTIMS AND THANKS THOSE WHO

HELPED.