This is my father, when he was a young Air Force captain, flying cargo planes during the Berlin Airlift.

NPR: State of the Union: Democratic Response Text

The once-bustling airport -- it was the site of the 1948 Berlin airlift that brought food to West Berliners after Soviets blockaded the city --closed in 2008 when a new international hub opened on the outskirts of the city.

CNN: Sites of Berlin's industrial past get a second life

The airlift to Berlin continued until September 1949, when the Russian blockade was lifted.

ECONOMIST: Arthur Raymond

The heroes of the blockade turned out to be Bevin, President Truman and Clay, the American proconsul who created the airlift which succeeded in supplying Berlin in the face of a belief within the Pentagon that Berlin could not be sustained by air.

ECONOMIST: The cold war