The initiative comes after the 182nd Airlift Wing’s successful collaboration with the German Air Force in Germany’s Air ...
By the fall the airlift, code-named "Operation Vittles ... And instead of preventing the establishment of an independent West Germany, it accelerated the Allies plans to set up the state.
that they would demand withdrawal of the Western powers and thus leave Berlin and the whole of Eastern Germany to the Soviet Union. The thirty-four-day supply of goods and the airlift defeated ...
Germans seem to have forgotten that American troops for 45 years kept the Soviets from absorbing all of Germany. The Berlin Airlift is now premodern history. Why, then, do confident Germans ...
Berlin however, was 100 miles inside of the Russian zone. This meant that the Allies had to travel through the Russian zone of Germany to get to their section of Berlin. However, the Russians had ...
Germany had been divided into four zones of ... 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 ...
Refugees from Afghanistan are arriving in their thousands at a US air base in Germany. The base has become a makeshift refugee camp and an international airport to evacuees - many children have ...
The Pentagon is sending at least 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border to enhance security and assist with a major military airlift of undocumented migrants. The deployment, announced by ...
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.