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Event Pays Tribute To Berlin Airlift of 1948

Helga Johnson, 73, remembers fleeing her Berlin home in 1944 with the Russian army hot on her trail. She remembers coming back to Berlin a year later and nearly starving in the aftermath of World War II.

And she remembers the American airplanes, part of the Berlin Airlift, that flew over once every three minutes in 1948 to bring food and other supplies to the city enduring a Russian army blockade.

"The war was only over three years and we were hungry," Johnson said yesterday from the cockpit of the C-54 "Spirit of Freedom," a Berlin Airlift plane on display yesterday at Andrews Air Force Base's annual open house. "It brings back memories."
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