The Berlin Airlift: The Cold War's most remarkable operation

It has been 70 years since the `Iron Curtain' was drawn around the Western-occupied sectors of Berlin by the Soviet Union.

Having occupied Berlin three years earlier, Russian forces managed to enforce a blockade on the city in June 1948, preventing the Western Allies access by road, rail or canal. Effectively condemning the people of Berlin to starve, Russia refused to lift the blockade until the Deutsche Mark was withdrawn from West Berlin.

Forced to find another way to deliver supplies to t...