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Berlin Airlift Monument in Berlin-Tempelhof, displaying the names of the 39 British and 31 American airmen who lost their lives during the operation. Similar monuments are located at the military airfield of Wietzenbruch near the former RAF Celle and at Rhein-Main Air Base .
The Berlin Airlift Squadron was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) transport squadron formed to participate in the Berlin Airlift.The unit operated for one year, between August 1948 and August 1949, and was raised specifically for the operation, drawing crews from two existing RAAF transport squadrons.
The Big Lift is a 1950 American drama war film on location in the city of Berlin, Germany, that tells the story of "Operation Vittles", the 1948–49 Berlin Airlift, through the experiences of two U.S. Air Force sergeants played by Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas.
Spirit of Freedom, a Douglas C-54 that supported the Berlin Airlift in the late 1940s, sits in pieces behind the Aviator Brewing Company’s brewery in Fuquay-Varina. The plane will be reassembled ...
Colonel Gail Seymour "The Candy Bomber" Halvorsen [1] (October 10, 1920 – February 16, 2022) was a senior officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. [2] He is best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings" and gained fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949.
A short film released by the United Kingdom highlighting the Berlin Airlift and the role of the Royal Air Force in assisting the USAF in helping to ensure that West Berlin remained supplied during the first overtly unfriendly act of the Cold War. A unique find for both the footage and for highlighting the role of the RAF in the operation as ...
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The description of the Berlin Airlift is quite vivid as is the inter-action between people of the five nations involved as the three major Western Allies rub along with the Soviet occupiers of East Berlin and East Germany. The book finishes with the end of the airlift but sets the scene for the following 40 years of Cold War.