Russia refuses to go along and announces its own currency introduction four days ... counter-blockade on Soviet areas. June 26: The Berlin airlift begins with 32 flights by American C-47 ...

Debrief: C-390 Builds Airlift Currency In Europe is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week ...

The two sides did not ever go to war. was over the city of Berlin. Berlin had been divided into four sectors (French, British, American and Russian) following the war and each country was ...

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 ...

The humanitarian mission known as the Berlin Airlift would be the only source of vital supplies for more than two million people until May 12, 1949, when the Soviet Union lifted the blockade.

The blockade had begun in June 1948, when the Soviet Union, in response to the introduction of a new currency ... West Berlin from the Western Allies. The blockade led to the Berlin Airlift ...

Russia refuses to go along and announces its own currency introduction four days ... counter-blockade on Soviet areas. June 26: The Berlin airlift begins with 32 flights by American C-47 ...

The Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift (26 June 1948–30 September 1949) to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, a difficult feat given the size of the city’s population.