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 Berlin Airlift -- 60th anniversary infographic
Graphic shows events of the Berlin Airlift.
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Berlin Airlift -- 60th anniversary

By Golden Section Graphics, Duncan Mil

June 24, 2008 - The 60th anniversary of the start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet blockade of Berlin became one of the greatest battlegrounds of the emerging Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West. With two million civilians and 20,000 allied troops in the British, French and American zones of Berlin facing starvation, Allied forces mounted a year-long air-bridge which became the largest humanitarian campaign the world has ever seen.

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PUBLISHED: 30/06/2008; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Associated Press, U.S. Air Force, Golden Section Graphics GmbH
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