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.

You might question how he bypassed: the establishment of NATO; the end of the Berlin blockade; the Russians’ first detonation of an atomic bomb; and the new Oreo cookie.

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Stories from the Big Freeze Series 1, The Berlin Blockade The Airlift in Berlin today. Berlin remembers the Airlift in many ...