City's Liberators Mark 60 Years Since Airlift ; It Was 60 Years Ago When the First Battleground of the Cold War Became a Bomb-Scarred City Whose Shattered People Were Close to Starving and Freezing to Death.

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It was 60 years ago when the first battleground of the Cold War became a bomb-scarred city whose shattered people were close to starving and freezing to death.

The Berlin Airlift was the biggest humanitarian efforts of modern times, feeding two million people and ensuring it did not cede to Communist control.

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City's Liberators Mark 60 Years Since Airlift ; It Was 60 Years Ago When the First Battleground of the Cold War Became a Bomb-Scarred City Whose Shattered People Were Close to Starving and Freezing to Death.

Two Cornish men, Roy Day, from Perranwell Station, and John Eddy, from Camborne, were at the heart of the operation to break what was effectively a Soviet siege.

The men, now re...

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