BERLIN -- Germany marked the 60th anniversary of the start of the Berlin Airlift on Thursday, celebrating an unprecedented undertaking that likely saved the city from falling to the Soviets and helped ...
Ingrid Azvedo spoke to the Lodi chapter of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia in June. The topic was her life in pre- and postwar Berlin with a special emphasis on the Berlin ...
February 4-11: President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchilll, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta and confirm a plan to divide both Germany and the city of Berlin ...
Berlin Airlift: Remembering those who fell to feed a hungry city during massive humanitarian mission
WIESBADEN, Germany -- For those who lived through the massive humanitarian effort to deliver life-saving supplies to the citizens of Berlin in 1948 and 1949, remembering is the easy part. But ensuring ...
A C-54, the "Spirit of Freedom," performs a training mission near Warsaw, Indiana, in August 2014. The Skymaster helped deliver hundreds of thousands of tons of food and fuel to West Berlin during the ...
The drop came on the 60th anniversary of the day the Soviets lifted their blockade strangling West Berlin. More than 100,000 Berliners turned out in honor of the 120 American, British and French ...
Retired Col. Gail Halvorsen attends a ceremony to dedicate the baseball and softball field of the Berlin Braves baseball team in 'Gail Halvorsen Park' in Berlin, Saturday, May 11. (Associated Press) ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Shortly before a small band of World War ll veterans gathered in France this week for the 80th ...
June 24: A steadily tightening noose of travel restrictions, begun nearly three months earlier, culminates in a full-blown Soviet blockade of Berlin. June 26: Airlift begins with 32 American C-47 ...
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