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What Did the Berlin Airlift Reveal About the Early Cold War? - The Berlin Airlift and the Logistics of the Early Cold War | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the summer of 1948, the western powers began supplying a city of two million people entirely by air. Every road, rail, and canal link to West Berlin had been severed by the Soviets, leaving only three narrow air corridors twenty miles wide. For fifteen months, coal, flour, dried milk, and winter heat flew into the city while the world watched to see if the operation could survive the freezing central European winter. This episode explores how the Berlin Airlift was actually achieved and…
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