Tempelhof Airlift Frame Color:Brown Thousands came

Thousands came

an arduous task done every so often to restore the building's facade

Eight months earlier

So down they went: Sixth Avenue in 1938

Tempelhof Airlift Frame Color:Brown Thousands cameIn June 1948, as the Russians cut off access to Berlin from the west, the United States and Britain set up "Operation Vittles" the airlift of food and other essentials into the city. Here, children watch a plane come in at Tempelhof Airport. The flight was one of 278,228 made over 15 months by the United States, Britain and France to supply West Berlin with food and other essentials after the Soviet Union cut off access to the city, then surrounded by