The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War period. Simmering tensions between the occupying powers of post-war Berlin boiled over in 1948 when the Soviet ...

The Berlin airlift ended on May 12, 1949, when the Soviets realized their blockade had failed. One year later, the Americans gifted the Liberty Bell to West Berlin.

The Berlin airlift, initiated in response to the Soviet blockade of western-controlled sectors of the city in June 1948, is among the most potent symbols of the cold war.

June 26: The Berlin airlift begins with 32 flights by American C-47 aircraft in West Germany to the Tempelhof airport in Berlin. Eighty tons of provisions are delivered that first day.

“The Berlin Airlift proves that the seemingly impossible can succeed if we courageously set big goals and work together. This makes me confident in the face of the great tasks that lie ahead of ...

Truman chose to stay on the middle course, and the scale of the airlift grew exponentially. At its height, one plane landed every 45 seconds at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport.

Richard Shimooka is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Centre for Advancing Canada’s Interests Abroad. June 24 marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the Berlin Airlift ...

BERLIN — Chancellor Olaf Scholz invoked the spirit of the Berlin Airlift on Tuesday to implore Germans that “the seemingly impossible can succeed,” urging them to brace for a tough winter and to rise ...

Berlin Airlift (1948-49) An Escape from the Front Line in Ukraine An excerpt from one of the most ambitious stories in The Times Magazine’s history. By Sarah A. Topol Bret Stephens ...

Berlin Airlift veteran honored MELISSA M. JANOSKI, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. June 6, 2024 · 4 min read ...