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.

Date: October 21, 1948
Period: Cold War
Made by: Universal Newsreel (Universal-International News), later donated to the U.S. National Archives
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Film stills
Issuer type: Media
Regime: Truman Administration
Leader: Harry S. Truman
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: War and the military, Media and information
Event: Berlin Airlift
Techniques: Name-calling
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Internet Archive item '1948-10-21_Clay_speaks_on_Berlin_Airlift' (copy of the U.S. National Archives Universal Newsreel Collection), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: U.S. Government-held newsreel (copyright deeded to the U.S., 1974)
Universal Newsreel Collection, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, via the Internet Archive (public-domain licence URL).

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.