The Postal Service commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift with the issuance of a 32-cent Berlin Airlift commemorative stamp on June 26, 1998, in Berlin, Germany. The stamp went on sale in the United States on June 27, 1998.
The stamp depicts a C-54 cargo plane flying over a gathering of civilians cut off from supplies during the Soviet blockade. In the background are images of the ruins left behind by WWII Allied bombing raids.
Designed by Howard Paine of Delaplane, Virginia, and illustrated by Bill Bond of Arlington, Virginia, the stamp was issued in a water-activated pane of twenty and printed by the Banknote Corporation of America, Inc., in the offset process.
