The Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift proved to be a public relations bonanza for the United States in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The Berlin Airlift | Article ...

In your Sept. 9 edition, you presented an article on the Berlin blockade and airlift of 1948-49. I would like to bring to your attention several factual errors. The article stated that the ...

Berlin Airlift, 60 years: a Cold War turning point. Published: May. 13, 2009, ... The drop came on the 60th anniversary of the day the Soviets lifted their blockade strangling West Berlin.

June 26 marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the Berlin Airlift. From 1948 to 1949 the U.S. and Britain delivered crucial supplies to West Berlin, which the Soviets had sought to blockade.

But after the blockade was lifted on May 12, 1949, Berlin was divided, and two different economies emerged in Germany. The division was cemented when the Berlin Wall went up in August, 1961 ...

A group of German children stand atop building rubble, cheering a United States cargo airplane as it flies over a western section of Berlin in 1948. Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images ...

Among the guests of honor will be 98-year-old U.S. airlift pilot Gail Halvorsen, who dropped hundreds of boxes of chocolate-covered raisins on tiny parachutes into West Berlin during the blockade.

The airlift did provide substantial goods to West Berlin during the blockade. But Western officially generally, and much of the Western press uncritically, failed to report that the USSR’s on ...

Breaking the Blockade is Not Enough. In 1949, Soviet resolve did not waiver solely because of the material success of the Berlin Airlift. West Berlin was 100 miles behind Red Army lines and the ...

The Berlin Blockade was lifted 70 years ago, on May 12, 1949. ... From June 1948 until May 1949 when the Soviets lifted the blockade, the Berlin airlift kept the city alive.

Just before midnight, the Soviets cut power to West Berlin and then begin a blockade of the city. June 24: All rail, road, and water access from the Western zones to Berlin is halted.