During the Berlin Airlift, this site became a lifeline for West Berliners, who were cut off by the Soviet blockade. The ...

Long Island played a key role in a storied chapter at the beginning of the Cold War known as the Berlin Airlift ... the Soviets lifted their blockade. Until the airlift ended, the planes used ...

Berlin blockade lifted, but planes keep flying FRANKFURT, May 12, 1949 (UP) -- With 1,583,721 tons and 194,531 flights behind them, the airlift boys kept them flying today. Russia claims west ...

Halvorsen, an Air Force transport pilot, was on the grounds of West Berlin ... blockade of Berlin’s Allied-occupied western sectors. Image Lieutenant Halvorsen in action during the airlift.

This became known as the Berlin blockade. Stalin did not intend to risk war over Berlin, he likely wanted to show that the Soviets also had power in Germany which could match the demonstrations of ...

This excellent and exceptionally interesting study of the background and course of the 1948 Berlin blockade is particularly ... not only to indicate the way the blockade was brought about by the ...

The Soviets blockaded food and other supplies from entering West Berlin. The Soviets lifted the blockade in May, 1949. Between June 1948 and September 1949, the airlift delivered more than 2.3 ...

Veterans who made history have been reuniting and exploring that history this week with visits to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, the Springfield Air National Guard Base and other Miami ...

Berlin blockade lifted, but planes keep flying FRANKFURT, May 12, 1949 (UP) -- With 1,583,721 tons and 194,531 flights behind them, the airlift boys kept them flying today. Russia claims west ...