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" But the errors and misplays just made the Mets more appealing to fans

" wrote John Wilson

Roosevelt as he stepped out of the machine

During the ascent

and trampling them in the street

Tempelhof Airlift featured-sports-photos " But the errors andIn June 1948, as the Russians cut off access to Berlin from the west, the United States and Britain set up "Operation Vittles" the airlift of food and other essentials into the city. Here, children watch a plane come in at Tempelhof Airport. The flight was one of 278,228 made over 15 months by the United States, Britain and France to supply West Berlin with food and other essentials after the Soviet Union cut off access to the city, then surrounded by