The Berlin Airlift at Tempelhof
Transport aircraft at Tempelhof airport in Berlin during the airlift of 1948–49.
When the Soviet Union closed the land routes into West Berlin in June 1948, the Western allies decided to supply a city of two million by air. At the peak an aircraft landed every few minutes, carrying coal, flour and everything else a city consumes. The blockade was lifted in May 1949, and the airlift had turned a defeated enemy population into an ally in the eyes of much of the West. Read the full story in our article on The Berlin Airlift: A Defining Moment at the Dawn of the Cold War.
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