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World Service,24 Jun 2010,10 mins

Berlin airlift

Witness History

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A child's eye view of the Berlin Airlift. Mercedes Wild was seven years old when West Berlin was blockaded by the Soviet Union. She struck up a friendship with one of the American pilots who flew supplies into the stricken city.

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