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Berlin airlift anniversary marked [video 3 min 18 sec]

In 1948, Stalin cut off all land links into West Berlin in an attempt to force out British, French and US troops.

Instead, the Western nations launched the biggest airlift in history to keep 2.25 million residents from starving.

For the next 11 months, planes landed every two minutes, bringing in total more than 2.5m tonnes of supplies.

More than 60 British, Germans and Americans died in plane crashes.
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