Post-war era - Berlin airlift 1948

A Douglas C-74 Globemaster is being unloaded on Berlin-Tempelhof airport, in the western part of the city, in 1948. 50 years ago, on 24 June 1948, the USSR imposed a blockade on Berlin as a reaction to the currency reform. All land and waterways were blocked for passenger and freight traffic between West Berlin and West Germany. The supply of the West Berlin population and the western allied occupation took place by an airlift established by the USA and Great Britain

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Airlift Blockade Blocked Circulation Currency Dealing Diet Discharge Discharging Dump Established Freight Gesellschaft Globemaster Imposed Insurance Nutrition Reform Tempelhof Transports Unloaded Unloading Waterways

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