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The Berlin Airlift: How The RAF Aided West Berlin | Royal Air Force (2022x41)

Air date: Mar 27, 2022

After the war, RAF transports helped keep Berliners alive during the Soviet blockade of the city in 1948/49. As well as flying round-the-clock operations into the airport, Sunderland flying boats delivered supplies by landing on Lake Havel near the city. During the 1960s the RAF augmented its fixed wing aircraft with helicopters like the Chinook.