Berlin Air Lift 1948 A German woman shows her appreciation to a British pilot

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Berlin Air Lift 1948 A German woman shows her appreciation to a British pilot

Berlin Air Lift 1948
A German woman shows her appreciation to a British pilot
During the Allied powers response to the Russian blockade was in essence simple yet in practice extremely complicated. Hundreds of aircraft from the RAF and the USAF flew from Allied bases in West Germany to RAF Gatow in West Berlin. Their cargo was largely food but also included medical supplies, candles, blankets infact anything and everything necessary to keep West Berlin from collapsing. The Russians had blockaded the roads and rail lines but couldn t stop the aircraft. To do so involved too great a risk of blundering into war. So the planes got through and West Berlin was kept from starvation. An extraordinary problem and an extraordinary solution

Manchester Mirror
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Berlin
Germany
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