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  2. Mar 9, 2011 · The Berlin Airlift was the name of an operation that carried supplies by plane to the Allied sectors of West Berlin over a Russian blockade in the late 1940s.

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  4. Jun 27, 2018 · On June 24, 1948, outraged by the currency reform introduced by the United States and Britain into their occupied zones of Germany, the Soviets blocked all road, rail and water routes to the...

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  5. Jun 24, 2022 · The Berlin Airlift Begins. On June 24, 1948, Soviet forces blockaded all road, rail and water routes into Berlin's Allied-controlled areas, stifling the vital flow of food, coal and other...

  6. Aug 20, 2024 · Berlin airlift: How “candy bomberssaved 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)

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  7. Sep 14, 2018 · Operation Vittles,” better known as the Berlin Airlift, began when the Soviet Union blockaded the western zone of Berlin. For 18 months, Allied forces flew round-the-clock, bringing 2.3 million tons of supplies to Berlin by air.

  8. Jul 13, 2023 · The airlift achieved what many thought was impossible: fulfilling the critical needs of a modern city’s population solely through air transport. Allied determination and organization had won the West’s first major victory in the Cold War.

  9. The Berlin Airlift, 19481949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.

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