Despite having run a mini-airlift to re-supply the American garrison for ten days in April, Clay was in no position to feed Berlin from the air. The United States Air Force had only 102 transport ...

The Berlin blockade and subsequent airlift proved to be a public relations bonanza for the United States in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The American military provided humanitarian ...

The Berlin Airlift is now premodern history. Why, then, do confident Germans increasingly dislike the United States? It is complicated. Since 1989, Germany has worked hard on its post-unification ...

Uneasy Postwar Relations: The Road to the Berlin Airlift Following the end of World War II , the alliance between the Soviet Union and the Western powers—the United States, Great Britain, and ...

A lack of basic goods like fuel and medicines. At the height of the Berlin Airlift, a plane landed at Berlin’s Templehof Airport every minute. Keeping West Berlin supplied in this way cost the ...

Truman formally committed the United States to the containment of Soviet expansionism ... Strained relations with Russia resulted in the Berlin Airlift—the dropping of supplies to East Berlin—and ...

In response, the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force, assisted by air crews from Commonwealth countries, began to airlift supplies of food and fuel to Berlin. As the blockade is ...