SALUTE TO AVIATION REMEMBERS BERLIN AIRLIFT.(LOCAL)

From: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) | Date: June 12, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Phyllis Speidell THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

SUFFOLK -- The Berlin Wall is gone now, and so is the U.S. president who helped bring it down.

But while it stood, it was a potent symbol of the division between East and West, a division that grew wide when the Soviet Union blockaded that German city.

To day, a flying relic of the greatest humanitarian effort in aviation history - the Berlin Airlift - comes to Suffolk as part of the annual Salute to Aviation at the Suffolk Executive Airport.

At the close of World War II, the United States, Britain, France and the ...

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