Berlin Airlift 60th Anniversary Set DC-3/C-47A SCENIX

Within its Scenix Edition series, Herpa is releasing a diorama set to mark the 60th anniversary of the start of the Berlin airlift, which will take the onlooker back audio-visually to the dramatic times of the blockade. From June 24, 1948 until May 12, 1949, The Soviet Union blocked all access roads via water and land to the Western sectors of Berlin to force the western allies to pull out of Berlin, which the Soviet Union claimed for itself. They then provided the West-Berlin population via air with food and coal. Three C-47 models of the US Air Force – among the also the legendary “Camel Caravan To Berlin” with the hand-painted camel “Clarence” on the fuselage as well as “The Berlin Train” whose original is now displayed on the premises of the former Rhine Main Air Force Base near Frankfurt /M. – sound their unique engines in front of the Tempelhof airport scenery. With the historic plea of former mayor Ernst Reuter to the “Peoples of the world”, a speech by US president Harry S. Truman and an excerpt from the reporting by the Deutschen Wochenschau of the time, these dramatic months come to life again. The set is limited to 1,200 items.