On the 75th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift on Sunday, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius hailed the Allies' robust stance against Soviet intimidation, and called for international solidarity ...

February 4-11: President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchilll, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta and confirm a plan to divide both Germany and the city of Berlin ...

EDWARD GOLDSTEIN, af.mil Special to The Gazette Jul 2, 2023 Jul 2, 2023 ARLINGTON, Va. • Seventy-five years ago, midway through a century marred by bloody conflict, the world faced a grave new crisis.

It’s hard to celebrate the biggest airlift operation of all time without a plane. But on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, the American DC-3 scheduled to take part in ...

BERLIN – Berliners are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the day the Soviets lifted their blockade strangling West Berlin in the post-World War II years with a big party at the former Tempelhof ...

WIESBADEN, Germany -- Roswitha Barry, child of the Berlin Airlift times and a guest at the mural unveiling ceremony on Clay Kaserne June 22, remembered lacking even the most essential goods in Berlin.

WIESBADEN, Germany — Thousands of Americans and Germans gathered at Clay Kaserne over the weekend as the Army and the state of Hessen commemorated one of the largest and most significant humanitarian ...

DENVER (AP) — U.S. military pilot Gail S. Halvorsen — known as the “Candy Bomber” for his candy airdrops during the Berlin airlift after World War II ended — has died at age 101. Halvorsen died ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Shortly before a small band of World War ll veterans gathered in France this week for the 80th ...

(Reuters) - This week marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the Berlin airlift. Below is the history and some facts behind the western allies' response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin: ...

Retired Col. Gail Halvorsen attends a ceremony to dedicate the baseball and softball field of the Berlin Braves baseball team in 'Gail Halvorsen Park' in Berlin, Saturday, May 11. (Associated Press) ...