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One of the Air Force’s first tasks was to help keep Berlin supplied during the Berlin Airlift. Here Douglas C-47s unload cargo at the city’s Tempelhof Airdrome in 1948 during “Operation Vittles.” By the time the airlift ended in September 1949, the Western powers had delivered 2.3 million tons of supplies to beleaguered Berlin. (National Archives)

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