At the beginning of the airlift, the conventional wisdom on both the Allied and Soviet sides was that Berlin could not be supplied indefinitely by air, that it would only be a matter of time ...

Despite having run a mini-airlift to re-supply the American garrison for ten days in April, Clay was in no position to feed Berlin from the air. The United States Air Force had only 102 transport ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This woman's hat had tiny US and British flags to mark the occasion Dignitaries from around the world have gathered in Berlin to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Berlin airlift.