Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949

Berlin Airlift airplane being loaded with supplies

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C-47 airplanes used in the Berlin Airlift task force at the Wiesbaden air base being loaded with food and supplies for the people of the Russian blockaded city of Berlin. People in photo are unidentified.

British officer and U.S. Military Personnel in Berlin

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(Left to right): Lieutenant General Sir Charles Keightley, British Army Commander; William H. Draper, Jr., American Undersecretary of Army; General Lucius Clay, the head of the OMGUS, the Office of Military Government, United States; and Lieutenant General A.C. Wedemeyer, Chief of Planning and Operations, U. S. Army, walk around the American headquarters in Berlin on June 29, 1948, pondering their moves to counter Russian steps that have frozen Berlin from the West.

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Berlin Airlift airplane being loaded with supplies

British officer and U.S. Military Personnel in Berlin