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 ...

Retired Col. Gail Halvorsen attends a ceremony to dedicate the baseball and softball field of the Berlin Braves baseball team in ‘Gail Halvorsen Park’ in Berlin , Saturday, May 11, 2019.

DENVER (AP) — U.S. military pilot Gail S. Halvorsen — known as the “Candy Bomber” for his candy airdrops during the Berlin airlift after World War II ended — has died at age 101.

Sixty years ago this week, the Berlin Airlift got underway. West Berlin was cut off on all sides by Soviet troops, who closed all land access to the city. Sixty-five people lost their lives during ...

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, the wartime capital of Germany, was some 160 kilometres within the Soviet Zone (what would later become East Germany). The Allies were all represented, but the Soviets were the dominant force.

Tempelhof was the hub of the Berlin Airlift where the Allies supplied the city with food and fuel in 1948 and 1949 during a Soviet blockade.

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 to ...