The Berlin Blockade was the first serious clash between the members of the former Grand Alliance close Grand Alliance During World War Two, the USA, Britain and the USSR formed the Grand Alliance ...

During the airlift, over 2.3 million tons of fuel, food and supplies were delivered to West Berlin in over 278,000 airdrops, according to a history of the campaign, by the U.S. Department of Defense.

BBC news reporter Patrick Smith explains the atmosphere in Berlin as the Soviet blockade takes hold and the Western powers are forced to keep their sectors of the city supplied by flying in ...

1,600 outwit Berlin blockade. BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) ... A 27-year-old mason fled through the ruins that form a no-man's land between the Soviet and American sectors.

The struggle to build support for humanitarian aid comes as May marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Blockade, ... especially between the Soviet Union and the U.S., were evident ...

In Berlin, in Germany, everywhere in the world today they are against Russia.” The Leningrad hunger blockade was a genocide, he continued. But, “We are here!” he added, referring to the ...

The Historical Precedent. On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union chose escalation. Soviet forces blocked all road, rail, and river access to the Western sectors of Berlin, initiating the Berlin ...

A Soviet blockade of the three western sectors of Berlin started on June 24 1948. At that point, the city, like the rest of Germany, was split into areas of Russian, British, US and French control as ...

BERLIN, June 26, 1948 (UP) - Lieut. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, British military governor, formally protested today to Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky against the Soviet blockade of Berlin and asked ...