Central(C): Germany (West) (CW). Quadripartite Air Negotiations in Berlin

A file of correspondence and memoranda concerning the Soviet shooting down of two Allied aircraft on consecutive days in March 1953. The documents discuss the shooting down of an American F84 fighter by two MiG-15 aircraft carrying Czechoslovak Air Force livery near the Czechoslovak frontier; the shooting down of a British Lincoln bomber that the Soviets claimed had strayed outside of the Berlin air corridor; the British statement released in response to the Lincoln bomber incident; and a telegram from the Soviets responding to British assertions that the bomber had been over Allied territory when it was shot down. Other documents discuss a British European Airways pilot's report on his aircraft being "buzzed" by a group of MiG-15s as it flew a scheduled passenger-carrying flight to Berlin; and British responses to a "conciliatory" letter from Vasilii Chuikov, Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.