GERMANY-AVIATION-HISTORY-BERLIN-AIRLIFT

A couple with children stand on the runway at berlin's disused Tempelhof Airport on June 25, 2018. - Berlin marks on june 26, 2018, 70 years since the start of the Berlin Airlift, a spectacular humanitarian rescue mission amid the first major Cold War crisis between the West and Soviet Union. For almost a year, mainly American and British pilots created a lifeline to support war-ravaged West Berlin, then encircled and blockaded by Soviet forces, with food and fuel. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)