The Berlin Airlift - in answer to the so-called Berlin Blockade instituted by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin - makes sure Americans living in West Berlin can get their groceries. (Gerald Waller/Stars ...

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 ...

During the Berlin Airlift, this site became a lifeline for West Berliners, who were cut off by the Soviet blockade. The airport was bustling with aircraft landing every few minutes, delivering ...

The Berlin squeezer was used at full pressure in 1948-49 (when it was broken by the airlift), and at half pressure in 1951, after the West proposed West German rearmament. Last week the Kremlin ...

FRANKFURT, May 12, 1949 (UP) -- With 1,583,721 tons and 194,531 flights behind them, the airlift boys kept them flying today.

Shortly before a small band of World War ll veterans gathered in France this week for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a local man was honored with a similar trip marking another military milestone ...

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.

Shortly before a small band of World War ll veterans gathered in France this week for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a local man was honored with a similar trip marking another military milestone, … ...

This excellent and exceptionally interesting study of the background and course of the 1948 Berlin blockade is particularly noteworthy in its combination of diplomatic history and the study of public ...