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May 9, 2024 · Berlin airlift: How “candy bombers” saved West Berlin. Learn about the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948–49 and the U.S. and British airlift of food, fuel, and other supplies for the people there. (more) See all videos for this article.
Jun 27, 2018 · Home. Topics. Cold War. Why the Berlin Airlift Was the First Major Battle of the Cold War. American and British pilots ferried some 2.3 million tons of supplies into West Berlin on a total of...
Jun 1, 2010 · Updated: November 9, 2022 | Original: June 1, 2010. The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to...
Jun 24, 2022 · June 24, 2022 | By Katie Lange, DOD News |. June 26 marks the 74th anniversary of the beginning of the Berlin Airlift, America's first major test of resolve during the Cold War and one of the...
Jun 25, 2018 · June 26 marks the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Berlin Airlift, America’s first major test of resolve during the Cold War and one of the largest humanitarian aid missions in history....
Sep 14, 2018 · On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union closed all surface routes into the western zone of Berlin. For 18 months, American and British aircrews flew around-the-clock bringing supplies into Berlin, in a mission called the Berlin Airlift.
Jun 12, 2006 · It was on June 26 that the so-called Berlin Airlift officially began and the first scheduled airlift brought supplies to the three Allied sectors of West Berlin. Deep inside Soviet-held East Germany, West Berlin was an island of democracy in an ocean of communism.
