On 24th June 1948, Stalin cut all land access to Berlin for the Allies. This became known as the Berlin Blockade ... At the height of the Berlin Airlift, a plane landed at Berlin’s Templehof ...

In response, the Western Allies impose a counter-blockade on Soviet areas. June 26: The Berlin airlift begins with 32 flights by American C-47 aircraft in West Germany to the Tempelhof airport in ...

The blockade of Berlin ... the three western sectors of Berlin, with a civilian population of about 2,500,000 people, became dependent on reserve stocks and airlift replacements.

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.

W7est Berlin, an island of freedom in Soviet East Germany, lost a little of its opportunity to strike back if another Berlin airlift is ever ... make it easier to blockade Berlin again, and ...

The sound of the airlift planes, which had dwindled to a whisper, swelled to a cheering roar. Not since the blockade began had the morale of West Berlin been so high. At the polls the people had ...

Great Britain and France was the Berlin airlift. To help the 2.2 million people living in their sectors survive, planes took ...