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The Berlin Airlift: How a City Was Fed From the Sky for Eleven Months
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The Berlin Airlift: How a City Was Fed From the Sky for Eleven Months

In June 1948 the Soviet Union closed every road, rail line and canal into West Berlin, expecting two million people to run out of food within weeks. Instead, aircraft landed every few minutes for nearly a year — and delivered more by air than had ever been thought possible.

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