TO GO WITH AFP STORIES ABOUT THE 60th BERLIN AIRLIFT ANNIVERSARY FILES - A 1948 file photo shows C-47 transport aircraft of the US air force on the tarmac of Berlin's Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Airlift. On June 25, 1948, the western wartime Allies began a massive operation which kept divided Berlin's western sectors supplied with food, coal and other provisions during the Soviet blockade, one of the opening salvoes of the Cold War. Germany will play host on June 26, 2008 on the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift to octogenarian former pilots who helped save the embattled western part of the city as the Soviets tried to starve it into submission. AFP PHOTO FILES / US AIR FORCE