The sculpture on Platz der Luftbrücke in front of the disused Tempelhof Airport commemorates the effort to supply the West ...

How would they know which plane was his, the children wanted to know. “I’ll wiggle my wings,” the former Utah farm boy ...

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 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 Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting has welcomed a Boeing KC-97 (Tanker 97) donated by the Berlin Airlift Historical ...

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 ...

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.

Tanker 97, a Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter, a new addition to the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting in Greybull, has ...

To Colonel Gail “Hal” Halvorsen, who became known worldwide as the Candy Bomber, the Berlin Airlift was healing balm on the wounds of war. He and his fellow American pilots dropped more than ...

Strained relations with Russia resulted in the Berlin Airlift—the dropping of supplies to East Berlin—and extended American wartime aid to the postwar period. Major Acts: Harry S. Truman used nuclear ...