June 26: The Berlin airlift begins with 32 flights by American ... By his West Point grave, a memorial from the people of Berlin reads: "Wir danken dem Bewahrer unserer Freiheit," in English ...

"The airlift showed how important it is to do the right thing," Pistorius told a ceremony at the Berlin Airlift Memorial in the German capital. "If our partners had just shrugged their shoulders ...

Berlin remembers the Airlift in many ways, here are some: places, planes and cans. The 60th anniversary of the Airlift drawn by Jürgen Blask who features in the programme ...

Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze — Series 1, The Berlin Blockade In 1948 Stalin blockaded Berlin. Bridget Kendall hears from three people who were there. BBC Radio 4 ...

At the beginning of the airlift, the conventional wisdom on both the Allied and Soviet sides was that Berlin could not be supplied indefinitely by air, that it would only be a matter of time ...