---
title: 'Universal-International News title card: ''Gen. Clay: Reds Underestimate Our Airlift to Berlin'''
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/universal-news-gen-clay-berlin-airlift-1948/
description: 'Opening title card of a story in Universal Newsreel, Volume 21, Release 163 (21 October 1948): ''GEN. CLAY / Reds Underestimate Our Airlift To Berlin''.'
section: Collection
---

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# Universal-International News title card: 'Gen. Clay: Reds Underestimate Our Airlift to Berlin'

Opening title card of a story in Universal Newsreel, Volume 21, Release 163 (21 October 1948): 'GEN. CLAY / Reds Underestimate Our Airlift To Berlin'. The headline attributes a view to the U.S. military governor, Gen. Lucius D. Clay, and uses 'Reds' as a collective label for the Soviet side. The story that follows shows Clay stepping from an aircraft at night.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
GEN. CLAY
Reds Underestimate
Our Airlift To Berlin

[partly cropped at top edge:] UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL NEWS
[partly cropped at bottom edge:] VOICE: ED HERLIHY
```

The header and voice credit are cut by the frame edge and are partly legible; they are marked partial.

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