Airbridge to Berlin

Describing the immense Allied response to the Russian closure of the road and rail routes into Berlin in 1948.

It's interesting to reflect that at that time, President Vladimir Putin hadn't even been born, and one wonders how old he was before he heard of the Berlin airlift, that became the World's largest humantarian relief effort, and cost the lives of 70 Allied aircraft pilots.

But it possibly did stop the start of a shooting war.

Well illustrated with photographs taken whilst serving with the 1st Bn The Royal Norfolk Regiment in Dusseldorf and Berlin.

The airlift is still better remembered in the US than in the EU, except perhaps by elderly Germans in Berlin.