A pilot's eyeview of Tempelhof shortly before the blockade. Many of the large buildings surrounding the airport were destroyed by Allied bombing during the war. Unfortunately for the aircrew who later ran the blockade, the leveled buildings were not on the flight paths to the runways.


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