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Topic: Berlin Blockade

Berliners watch a US C-54 transport plane land at Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Airlift
Politics
Wednesday, 6/24, 05:40 PM

This day in history: the Berlin Blockade begins, June 24, 1948

  • On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union severed road, rail and canal links to the western sectors of Berlin, triggering one of the first great confrontations of the Cold War — and a Western airlift that would supply a city of more than two million people from the sky for nearly a year.

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