In response, the Western Allies impose a counter-blockade on Soviet areas. June 26: The Berlin airlift begins with 32 flights by American C-47 aircraft in West Germany to the Tempelhof airport in ...

the Soviets cut electric power to West Berlin. On June 24, the Soviets halted all land and water access to the city; the blockade had begun. Despite having run a mini-airlift to re-supply the ...

This became known as the Berlin Blockade. Berlin could now only be ... At the height of the Berlin Airlift, a plane landed at Berlin’s Templehof Airport every minute. Keeping West Berlin ...

This is the fifth episode in a seven-part series on the Cold War and the Vietnam War, brought to you by Bitesize GCSE History. Throughout this series, we are examining the key moments in the Cold War, ...

Great Britain and France was the Berlin airlift. To help the 2.2 million people living in their sectors survive, planes took ...

It was famously used during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49, when Allied planes delivered supplies to West Berlin during the Soviet blockade. However, by the early 2000s, Tempelhof's days as a ...

The sculpture on Platz der Luftbrücke in front of the disused Tempelhof Airport commemorates the effort to supply the West ...