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Feed : http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2008/10/berlin-tempelhof-airport.html |  Updated : 2008-10-31 01:26:09
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Friday 31 October 2008 At 01:26

Berlin Tempelhof, once the world's largest airport, will close its gates tomorrow 31st October, 2008 on an 81-year history that spanned the Red Army's invasion, the Cold War and Germany's reunification. A 1940s Douglas DC-3 and a Deutsche Lufthansa AG Junkers Ju- 52 of a similar age will be the last aircraft to take off from the city-center airport shortly before midnight. With them will depart an era of Berlin's history. Tempelhof, expanded under Adolf Hitler, played a central role in the 1948 Allied airlift that circumvented a Soviet blockade after World War II.
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