Berlin, june 1980.
Berlin is a divided city at the height of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall separates communist East Berlin, controlled by the GDR and the Soviet Union, fr om democratic West Berlin, aligned with West Germany and supported by the Western Allies. Movement between the two sides is heavily restricted, and families and friends are often split by the border.
West Berlin functions as an isolated enclave with a vibrant counterculture, political activism, and growing tension around left-wing extremism, including the Red Army Faction. East Berlin is tightly controlled by the state, with the Stasi maintaining surveillance and enforcing ideological conformity.
Daily life differs starkly between the two halves of the city, symbolizing the ideological conflict between East and West during the Cold War.
No. 7 Flight Army Air Corps was re-formed in 1970, at RAF Gatow in Berlin, wh ere it from 1977 operated Westland Gazelle AH.1 helicopters. (SA342 made under license by Aérospatiale)
