Description How the Allies kept the population of West Berlin alive in the face of a Russian blockade.
A vast air armada stream.
Then the Soviets closed all Allied traffic through their zone, sealing off the food and supply routes on which the City relied.
Behind Russian lines, the Allied-controlled part of the great City of Berlin stood as the lone Western outpost in a sea of Communist occupation.
In the summer of1948, the Russians occupied all of Eastern Europe.
Description How the Allies kept the population of West Berlin alive in the face of a Russian blockade