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

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.

The initiative comes after the 182nd Airlift Wing’s successful collaboration with the German Air Force in Germany’s Air ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.