War and Conflict, Transport, pic: July 1948, Berlin, A British “Sunderland” flying boat having landed on the Wannsee being unloaded of vital foodstuffs for “beseiged” Berlin, The airlift was ordered by the Western Allies to try and break the Russian commu

Upon landing in Lake Wannsee on July 8, a British Short Sterling flying boat unloads cases of egg powder into landing craft, which then transfer to a waiting barge. (Popperfoto via Getty Images)