One minute after midnight this morning, when the blockade ended officially, the lift had brought into Berlin 1,583,721.5 tons in 194,531 flights. Its pilots had been in the air 413,000 hours and ...

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 ...

When the Berlin blockade struck in 1948, West Berlin rallied behind the late great Mayor Ernst Reuter (TIME, Sept. 18, 1950), a tough, aristocratic Socialist with a deeply etched face, ...

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 ...

75 years after the Berlin airlift, ... The Berlin blockade eventually ended, people survived and legends such as the late "Candy Bomber," Col. Gail Halvorsen, emerged.

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On May 12, 1949, after 322 days, Stalin lifted the blockade. Up until that point, the Allies had made about 260,000 flights to West Berlin, delivering more than 2.1 million tons of essential supplies.

A Soviet blockade of the three western sectors of Berlin started on June 24 1948. At that point, the city, like the rest of Germany, was split into areas of Russian, British, US and French control as ...