“We can get by on a little food, but if we lose our freedom, we may never get it back,” said a group of German kids to the young U.S. Air Force pilot, as they lined up behind a barbed-wire fence at the end of a landing strip in Berlin Tempelhof Airport in 1948.
In 1948, the Soviet Union imposed blockades on the 110 miles of roads from West Germany to West Berlin seeking to force the city to join East Germany. This resulted in the isolation of more than 2.5 million West Berliners.
