EUROPE
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.