The sculpture on Platz der Luftbrücke in front of the disused Tempelhof Airport commemorates the effort to supply the West ...

Join me on a journey down history lane as we walk the iconic Berlin Airlift Route! 🚶‍♂️✈️ Discover the hidden stories that ...

The Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift proved to be a public relations bonanza for the United States in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The American military provided humanitarian ...

A lack of basic goods like fuel and medicines. At the height of the Berlin Airlift, a plane landed at Berlin’s Templehof Airport every minute. Keeping West Berlin supplied in this way cost the ...

The two sides did not ever go to war. was over the city of Berlin. Berlin had been divided into four sectors (French, British, American and Russian) following the war and each country was ...

To Colonel Gail “Hal” Halvorsen, who became known worldwide as the Candy Bomber, the Berlin Airlift was healing balm on the wounds of war. He and his fellow American pilots dropped more than ...

Between November 1948 and August 1949 Booker flew an incredible 227 sorties as part of the now-famous Berlin Airlift from the RAF-controlled airfield at Wunstorf in West Germany into Gatow, the ...

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 ...