The Airlift was one of the most successful humanitarian missions ever conducted by the U.S. military. The dichotomy between the success of the Berlin Airlift and the battle over humanitarian aid ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE BERLIN AIR LIFT, greatest air supply operation in history, is one year old. Pioneered by 32 flights in war-weary "gooney birds," which delivered 82 tons of food to Tempelhof Air Force Base ...

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 ...

"The airlift showed how important it is to do the right thing," Pistorius told a ceremony at the Berlin Airlift Memorial in the German capital. "If our partners had just shrugged their shoulders ...

The Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift (26 June 1948–30 September 1949) to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, a difficult feat given the size of the city’s population.

The U.S. failure to counter China’s “gray zone” tactics stems from a lack of will, not a lack of options.

Donald Butterfield — seen here with Clarence. Clarence soon became a mascot for Operation Vittles — also known as the Berlin Airlift — as people would deposit gifts and candy for the Berlin ...