Sortie Stories·Oct 28What Was “Black Friday” in the Berlin Airlift, and How Did One Bad Day Fix the Whole Operation?On August 13, 1948, a storm over Tempelhof jammed the sky with loaded cargo planes. It gave the airlift its most important rule, but the…
Sortie Stories·Oct 24Nine Landings or Thirty: How One Bad Friday Rebuilt the Berlin AirliftIn August 1948 the airlift was drowning in its own airplanes. The fix wasn’t heroics. It was a schedule.
Matthew A·Oct 18, 2024June 24, 1948: Remembering the Berlin AirliftAs one of their postwar commitments to the Allies, the USSR perhaps somewhat reluctantly granted the West a zone within Berlin. It was one…
Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley·Jul 17, 2024Why West Germany Was Not Punished After World War 2Germany is a nation that is responsible for Two World wars and responsible for the deaths of over 75 million people during World War II…A response icon3