The end of the Berlin Airlift on September 30, 1949, marked a stunning, early victory in the Cold War. The crisis grew out of a plan by the United States, Britain, and France a year earlier to create ...

The Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift proved to be a public relations bonanza for the United States in the Cold War ...

Lucius Clay graduated from West Point in 1918 and became a military engineer, rising through the ranks to become the Army's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on June 24, 1948, as word that the Soviet Union had cut off power and other essential services ...

PARIS, Oct. 21, 1948 (UP) - The three western powers, who have decided to withdraw their condemnation of Russia as a threat to peace if the Berlin blockade is lifted, accepted a small-nation formula ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Retired Col. Gail Halvorsen attends a ceremony to dedicate the baseball and softball field of the Berlin Braves baseball team in ...

The Berlin Airlift remains one of the greatest Allied achievements of the Cold War, a moment where bombers were repurposed to drop large quantities of food and coal to a starving, freezing civilian ...

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Every military conflict contains situations that eventually become its defining symbols. The Berlin airlift, initiated in response to the Soviet blockade of western-controlled sectors of the city in ...

Frankfurt, Germany, July 7, 1948: Berlin Airlift pilots receive their final orders before flying another load of coal out of Rhein-Main Air Base, one of the two hubs (along with Wiesbaden) of the ...