Youngsters stand on a bomb-damaged building near the Tempelhof Airport as a U.S. cargo plane, part of the Berlin airlift, ...

Critics invoked the specter of 2003 and the quagmire of Iraq. Opinion pieces warned of regional blowback and a united front ...

BERLIN, May 28, 1949 (UP) - Western Berlin fell back upon the Anglo-American airlift for sustenance today in the face of a Soviet-inspired rail blockade intended to smash the eight-day strike of ...

The United Nations Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, by nearly 50 nations in California. Signed at the historic Veterans’ ...

Conclusion The Berlin Airlift demonstrated that a clear strategic vision, coupled with economic and military resolve, can overcome a blockade and shift the balance of power in favor of a free and open ...

The Berlin Airlift became a necessity from June 1948 to May 1949, when Soviet leader Josef Stalin cut off land access to the former German capital deep inside the Soviet Union-controlled part of ...

By May 1949, the blockade had been lifted. According to historians, the Berlin Blockade, and the Allied response in the form of the Berlin Airlift, represented the first major conflict of the Cold ...

WIESBADEN, Germany – When millions of Germans living in West Berlin were cut off from the rest of the world by a Soviet Union blockade in 1948 it kicked off the Berlin Airlift - the largest ...

The three-day event, which ends Monday, celebrates the 75th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Airlift, an allied response to the Soviet Union’s blockade of all land and waterway access to ...

The Soviets lifted the blockade in May, 1949. Between June 1948 and September 1949, the airlift delivered more than 2.3 million tons of cargo, approximately 75 percent of it in American planes ...

The success of the Airlift was easily quantifiable. During the blockade, rations in West Berlin rose to 2,000 calories, higher than anywhere else in postwar Germany.