The Berlin Airlift - Tempelhof 1948 by Barry Price. TRA40 24th September 1944 by David

24th September 1944 by David Pentland

until it was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Air Force

Townsend returned to base at this perilous altitude

Despite losing some 15 pilots killed or captured

capture the Allied fuel supplies

The Berlin Airlift - Tempelhof 1948 by Barry Price. TRA40 24th September 1944 by DavidLE45. The Berlin Airlift Tempelhof 1948 by Barry Price. In 1948 Stalins ruthless rule over post war Eastern Europe was extended to a blockade of the land supply routes to West Berlin in an attempt to starve the city into surrender. The freedom of West Berlins 2 million population was maintained during 1948 and 1949 by a massive airlift of food, coal and supplies over the Iron Curtain and the will of Berliners not to capitulate in the face of Stalins