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.

The Berlin squeezer was used at full pressure in 1948-49 (when it was broken by the airlift), and at half pressure in 1951, after the West proposed West German rearmament. Last week the Kremlin ...

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 ...

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 Blockade, Berlin, West Germany, Sep. 21 ...

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 .

On this date in history: In 1901, Pablo Picasso's artwork had its first exhibition in Paris. In 1908, former president Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 71. In 1948, Soviet ...

Moscow this week announced that it was willing to lift the Berlin blockade—at a price. Moscow made two conditions: 1) the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers must meet again to discuss the ...

The image is one of a series of 9 shot Sep. 21, 1948 by Stars and Stripes photographer Gerald Waller titled “Berlin Americans live normal life,” to show how Americans were adapting living in ...