Local venues offer plenty of indoor activities to escape rainy or hot summer days, like family yoga and tai chi at the Mead Public Library.

The Berlin Airlift was in full swing and Chuck was a young Airman who trained as a Flight Engineer and helped keep the Douglas C-54’s mission ready.

Breaking the Blockade is Not Enough In 1949, Soviet resolve did not waiver solely because of the material success of the Berlin Airlift. West Berlin was 100 miles behind Red Army lines and the Soviets ...

The Douglas C-54 was used during the Berlin Airlift between 1948 and 1949 — part of an American-led effort to fly food and other necessities into East Germany.

On Nov. 9, 1989, the communist government of East Germany announced that all residents would be permitted to travel to West Berlin and West Germany. Crowds of Eastern and Western Germans climbed ...

About 39 C-54 Skymasters, capable of carrying about seven tons per flight on the Berlin run, will be dispatched…. Front pages of the Wilmington Morning News from June 28, 1948.

The C-54 “Spirit of Freedom” museum airplane is parked just outside of the Piper Aviation Museum, and is welcoming all to come and learn about the history of the Berlin Airlift.

Spirit of Freedom, a Douglas C-54 cargo plane that helped support the Berlin Airlift in the late 1940s. The plane was badly damaged by a tornado in South Carolina in 2020.

Spirit of Freedom, a Douglas C-54 that supported the Berlin Airlift in the late 1940s, sits in pieces behind the Aviator Brewing Company’s brewery in Fuquay-Varina.

The Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation set out to find another C-54. It found one in Florida and has been working to restore the plane and turn it into a new Spirit of Freedom flying museum that ...

Spirit of Freedom, a Douglas C-54 that supported the Berlin Airlift in the late 1940s, sits in pieces behind the Aviator Brewing Company’s brewery in Fuquay-Varina.