March 31: The Soviets demand inspection of all Western military trains going to and from Berlin. Clay refuses to comply and halts train shipments, starting a mini-airlift to re-supply the roughly ...

Early in the airlift, the man from Utah shared two sticks of gum with starving Berlin kids and saw others sniffing the wrappers just for a hint of the flavor. Touched, he told the children to come ...

FRANKFURT, May 12, 1949 (UP) -- With 1,583,721 tons and 194,531 flights behind them, the airlift boys kept them flying today. The hundreds of American and British planes which supplied blockaded ...

During the airlift, American, British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and South African pilots flew 278,000 flights to Berlin, carrying 2.3 million tons of food, coal, medicine and other supplies.

prompting the Western Allies to organize the Berlin Airlift. The move required a response, and the four Allied powers delivered in a big way. And a sweet way. Here’s the story: At the end of ...

A U.S.-led mission, known as the Berlin Airlift, flew supplies into the city to keep its residents from starving. As part of the airlift, some pilots also dropped tiny parachutes loaded with candy, to ...

12, 2024. The event was held to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, which officially ended Sept. 30, 1949. The Berlin Airlift was the name of a round-the-clock airlifting ...

As a Berlin museum with Russian trustees commemorates an allied victory over the Soviet Union, it is also negotiating the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. By Catherine Hickley ...

March 31: The Soviets demand inspection of all Western military trains going to and from Berlin. Clay refuses to comply and halts train shipments, starting a mini-airlift to re-supply the roughly ...

In 1948, when the Russians cut off access to Berlin by land, Harry Truman ordered the Berlin Airlift to send supplies to western parts of Berlin. When the Russians finally figured out that Truman ...