At the beginning of the airlift, the conventional wisdom on both the Allied and Soviet sides was that Berlin could not be ... 8,000 tons — and the U.S. representative to the United Nations ...

Lucius Clay (1897-1978) and the Organization of the Airlift ... the ranks to become the Army's youngest brigadier general in World War II, where he directed the U.S. military supply operation.

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 ...

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.

The legendary response of the US, Great Britain and France was the Berlin airlift. To help the 2.2 million ... place for at ...