This excellent and exceptionally interesting study of the background and course of the 1948 Berlin blockade is particularly noteworthy in its combination of diplomatic history and the study of public ...

Berlin blockade lifted, but planes keep flying. FRANKFURT, May 12, 1949 (UP) -- With 1,583,721 tons and 194,531 flights behind them, the airlift boys kept them flying today.

BERLIN: Kleine Blockade. 3 minute read. TIME. April 11, 1955 12:00 AM GMT-5. S omewhere in the Kremlin, the Communists appear to keep a Machiavellian UNIVAC with buttons, lights and levers that ...

Events of the Berlin blockade On 24 June 1948 , Stalin cut all land access to Berlin for the Allies, citing ‘technical difficulties'. This became known as the Berlin blockade .

Berlin, West Germany, Sep. 21, 1948: Three months in, the meat department at the Berlin commissary in West Berlin’s American Sector still offers the same variety as it did before the Berlin ...

BBC news reporter Patrick Smith explains the atmosphere in Berlin as the Soviet blockade takes hold and the Western powers are forced to keep their sectors of the city supplied by flying in ...