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Historical novel about the Berlin Airlift by Kati Fabian
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FEBRUARY  2008

 

American Sponsored State Terrorism
By izharudeen - Germany-1948-Military deployed in response to the Berlin blockade; the Berlin airlift lasts 444 days. Philippines-1948-54-The CIA directed a civil war against the Filipino Huk revolt. Puerto Rico-1950-Military helped crush an ...

Utah's famous 'Candy Bomber' to be honored
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA - By Larry Weist Utahn Gail S. Halvorsen, a retired Air Force colonel who received fame as the "Candy Bomber" during the 1948-49 Berlin Airlift, ...

A Familiar Face
Fergus Falls Daily Journal - Fergus Falls,MN,USA - Some of the pictures showed scenes from the Berlin Airlift. Scotty remembered that his grandfather talked about that when they sat on the porch that morning ...

Christopher Booker's Notebook
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom ... part in the Normandy landings and the 1948 Berlin airlift, and for decades after the war was the workhorse of local air services all round the world. ...

More pointless EU legislation
By Norfolk Blogger -"By any measure the Douglas DC-3 Dakota was one of the great aircraft of the 20th century, playing a key part in the Normandy landings and the 1948 Berlin airlift, and for decades after the war was the workhorse of local air services ...

        

New Non-Fiction DVD's at the Library
By Shari - The Berlin Airlift. In 1948, the Soviet Union blocked access to West Berlin, starving the population and choking commerce. Panorama Singapore. Picture a place where the ancient traditions of the Orient mingle with the hi-tech world of ...

Air Force colonel 'was happiest in an airplane'
al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA - During the 1948-49 Berlin Airlift, he helped keep the city's 2.5 million residents alive by flying milk, medicine and other supplies around a Soviet ...

Robert Whaley, 78, basketball standout, teacher and coach
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA - During World War II, he served in England, Tripoli and Germany, where he was a control tower operator during the Berlin Airlift. ...

        

Super World War II veterans cited on Super Bowl Sunday
Palos Verdes Peninsula News - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA
During the Berlin Airlift, he was inspector general. He later served with the Air Force Chief of Staff and the Systems Command developing ballistic missiles ...

Chasing Spies in Berlin
By militaryagentmemories - One crisis rolled into the next like a snowball hurtling downhill: from the 1948 Berlin Blockade, to the 1953 East German workers’ uprising, to the series of ultimatums Russian leader Nikita Krushchev flogged the western powers with, ...

The historical novel about the Berlin Airlift "Eagles Over Berlin ...
Information on historical landmarks across the United States. The historical novel about the Berlin Airlift "Eagles Over Berlin - Flight for Love and ...

Operation Vittles and the (maybe) passing of Templehof
By Tony Bandy - For it was this airport, along with others, that became the focal point of the Berlin Airlift. Backstory: Divided up into two parts after the war and controlled by both the Allies and the Soviets, Germany became the new lead point for ...

It's Feeling a Bit Drafty In Here....
By DanskaBeaver(CENTRAL) - Forty years ago Soviet tanks rushed into Czechoslovakia, while East German and Soviet governments placed a blockade around West Berlin, spurring the famed Berlin Airlift. Shortly after the end of the Second World War the global ...

        

The eventful life of Bee Wee Captain Nigel Heath
Trinidad News - Port of Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
... to and from West Berlin and Nigel found himself as aircrew and second officer flying the narrow, crowded, dangerous air lanes of the Berlin Airlift. ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis Declassified
By admin - The crisis ranks with the Berlin Blockade as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is often regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to escalating into a nuclear war. As Doctor Scott Marsili states, ...

Review of Book Reviews from 2007 by RayS. Concluded.
By RayS(RayS) ... negotiations with Churchill and Stalin, the dropping of the atomic bomb, the shift from a war-time to a peace-time economy, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin blockade, Palestine, the Korean War and the dismissal of MacArthur. ...

Ken Hechler remembers his former boss, President Truman
University News (subscription) - Kansas City,MO,USA -"People [should] remember President Truman as the author of the Marshall Plan, the person who started the Berlin Airlift, which was very successful, ...

        

Inside Europe: The Inside Take on European Affairs
Tempelhof was once a symbol of Nazi power but after World War Two, it became the focal point of the Berlin Airlift, where allies flew in provisions for West Berliners after the Soviets cut off land and water access to the city. ...

German airport may face same fate as Meigs
JETS.ru - Moscow,Russia - ... under the Hitler regime, Tempelhof is best known as the terminal that saved West Berlin from a Soviet blockade during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949. ...

Flouting Stalin to feed Berlin
Cumberland News - Carlisle,England,UK - He was working on the Berlin Airlift. His job was to man the boats that unloaded the vital cargo from the flying boats. The sectors of Berlin controlled by ...

        

Lukashenko meets with Putin, Schengen visa, EU policy, 3300 new ...
By BEING HAD(BEING HAD) - Sixty years ago the Berlin Airlift highlighted the menace of Stalin's Kremlin. Forty years ago Soviet tanks crushed both the Prague Spring and any remaining illusions about the Kremlin's grip on the captive nations. ...

Political parades
By wildgoosechase - Tempelhof was also the main airport used during the Berlin Airlift in 1948-9. Over two million tons of supplies were delivered during this amazing operation, most to Tempelhof. So there is a lot of sentimental support for keeping it ...

In a new book, Sarah Murray extols the portability and ...
The Independent Weekly - Durham,NC,USA - So, those chapters are, in the same order, really about amphoras, shipping containers, military rations, the Berlin Airlift, Mumbai's elaborate lunch ...

        

Stop the Kowtow to Moscow
By James - The West must stand up to the Kremlin now Edward Lucas Sixty years ago the Berlin Airlift highlighted the menace of Stalin's Kremlin. Forty years ago Soviet tanks crushed both the Prague Spring and any remaining illusions about the ...

Why kowtow to brutal, cynical Russia?
By Tim(Tim) - Sixty years ago the Berlin Airlift highlighted the menace of Stalin's Kremlin. Forty years ago Soviet tanks crushed both the Prague Spring and any remaining illusions about the Kremlin's grip on the captive nations. ...

Kelly is extremely happy today. Actually very tired at the ...
By KELLY(KELLY) - After history, I was like a flat battery, after watching those dull black and white clips about the berlin blockade and all. CT period was maybe what that made me came alive. God knows the number of times I blushed...

Kids, Don't Try Waterboarding at Home
By typepad@ijot.com(typepad@ijot.com) - The Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift are examples of things the US did not have to do, and did partially for the sake of goodwill towards Germans. Goodwill to prevent WWIII. I could be totally misinterpreting history, ...

        

Uncle Sam in Berlin
By nobody@flickr.com (joaobambu)
Heroism was at its most evident at Tempelhof during the tense months of the Berlin airlift, when Allied pilots flew in food and supplies to sustain the population of West Berlin when the Soviets blockaded the enclave in 1948. ...

Berlin Fashion Week: Fetishizing Fascism
Gridskipper - New York,NY,USA - ... center of operations for the Berlin Airlift -- is obviously the perfect place to launch your collection of iron-cross-laden, stiff-silhouetted, black, ...

thinkatory @ 2008-02-04T13:37:00
By Anastasia Beaverhausen(Anastasia Beaverhausen) - And Bill Belichick made an ass out of himself in front of over half of America. Well done, Bill! Aaand now I'm back to research on the Berlin Airlift and West Germany. Hoosiers, you have ruined me. But you won't drag me into your March ...

        

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Price recalls time serving in Germany
Canon City Daily Record - CO, United States - When the world witnessed the Berlin Airlift in 1948, officials shut down the aircraft landings at Tempelhof. As long as the wall was up, the airplanes had ...

My Best Boss I thought my new boss was a good guy when I signed on ...
By Dick Klade(Dick Klade) - In less than an hour, he arranged something like a civilian counterpart of the Berlin airlift to get me where a new father should be. After a Ripple call, the sales manager loaned his station wagon to a young contest winner to drive me ...

Berlin referendum to be held on future of Tempelhof airport
Earthtimes - London,UK - Tempelhof was where allied planes landed during the Berlin airlift nearly 60 years ago when the communists sealed West Berlin's land and rail routes. ...

Germany And Poland Take A Turn On The Wheel Of Fortune
By Freedom Fighter(Freedom Fighter) - ... about how magnanimous the US was to Germany and the German people after Hitler's defeat, the billions we spent and the troops we stationed there to keep them free, starting with the early days of the Cold War and the Berlin Airlift. ...

The Berlin Wall
By hannahb - The British and US forces resonded by sending supplies to the city by air for over a year (the Berlin Airlift). The blockade was lifted in May 1949, although the intention was for the four countries to rule together, the growing tension ...

chpt. 26 sec.1
By Lydia Shannon(Lydia Shannon) - The US started the Berlin Airlift where planes brought supplies to the country. 2. Effect: US Action: The US and many European nations joined NATO, a military alliance that promised to protect each other incase they were ever attacked ...

        

Plowing Berlin’s History Under
By Joe Noory(W) - Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, a facility relevant to the history of the city, the 2nd World War, and the Berlin airlift is imperiled by the wrecking ball. If you can sign the petition, I urge you do so. ...

Berlin slaps down US demand to send troops
Times Online - UK - At least when starving German's needed help, President Truman didn't play it safe and risked the lives of US airmen in the Berlin airlift. ...

US Air Force launches "Berlin CyberLift" in Egypt to save lives ...
The Spoof (satire) - UK - "The original Berlin Airlift proved the importance of an Air Force to global security. Our new Berlin CyberLift will prove the importance of a Cyber Force. ...

        

Her Voice.
By Duane(Duane) - What of the Berlin airlift, I said. What of the North Atlantic Treaty? What of a whole lot of other things I distinctly remember adding. We had a terrible roe. It was the first day we met as I recall. Oh, I was no match for her. ...

Soldier, how is the weather at the front?
By Matt Sarrel - the Berlin Blockade, with grave consequences. The tragic collision of an American airplane carrying relief goods with a Russian fighter plane costs not only the lives of both crews, but also overstretches the ...

BRITAIN'S "GREAT ESCAPE" PRISONER OF WAR
By mike(mike) - Dale Jennings retired from the Air Force after more than 20 years of service from WW2 thru 1963 he also took part in the Berlin Airlift when the Russians sealed off the city he passed away in Sep 2000at the age of 92 they were all ...

Why Barack Obama?
By Shrek(Shrek) - America is about Kennedy addressing Berliners in the height of the Berlin blockade and shouting to an audience without ration and food for weeks, “Ich bin ein Berliner”. Does not really matter what he ended up doing, but that marked and ...

Quote of the Day -- Obscure Reference Division
By Drew V.(Drew V.) - Witness Joe having fun at Mike's expense after a tense phone conversation about our cable installation:. Joe: "He sounded so frazzled you would have thought he was coordinating the Berlin airlift without any planes."

        

 

JANUARY  2008

 

Holocaust at 75
By Stephen Reed - But the progress was sustained when the German people saw that, for all their mistakes, they were still of value enough for the West to not only feed them but to defend them in the Berlin Airlift a couple of years later. ...

Tributes to a picture legend
Hunts Post - Huntingdon,England,UK - He served with the Pathfinders and was proud of having taken part in the Berlin airlift. On leaving the RAF at Wyton, he made his home in St Ives and during ...

Review of Book Reviews from 2007 by RayS
By RayS(RayS) - The second volume of Truman's Memoirs concerns the major issues with which he had to deal after WWII: Russia and the Cold War; the Berlin Blockade; labor, management and the Taft-Hartley Law; Korea, Communist China; MacArthur; ...

Activists to force public referendum on planned closure of ...
International Herald Tribune - France - ... to try to halt the planned closure of an airport that was at the hub of the nearly yearlong US-led Berlin Airlift, city officials said Thursday. ...

Commander: Famed NY Air National Guard unit heading back to Iraq
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA - ... and its first since returning in January 2007. The heralded unit _ whose history goes back to the Berlin Airlift _ is based at Hancock Field in Syracuse.

memo to the president elect
By cory ondrejka(cory ondrejka) - For inspiration, I encourage you to cite the Berlin airlift -- because I fear that tale has been forgotten an
d because it, too, will have a sixtieth anniversary during your first year. Unfortunately, what worries me about Albright's ...

        

The Vernichtung of Berlin’s History
By Joe Noory(Joe Noory) - Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, a facility relevant to the history of the city, the 2nd World War, and the Berlin airlift is imperiled by the wrecking ball. If you can sign the petition, I urge you do so. ...

Let's Play Catch Up!!!
By Falcon Rookie Blogger(Falcon Rookie Blogger) - We talked about the four areas of the US-USSR Relations: The Truman Doctrine (Iran, Greece and Turkey), The Marshall Plan (build - economically - Western Europe), The Berlin Airlift, and the establishment of NATO (if one goes to war, ...

Codename: Panzers - Cold War
Play.tm - UK - Taking the increasingly tense events surrounding the 1949 Berlin blockade as a starting point, an accidental mid air collision soon lights the blue touch ...

Berlin's Historic Tempelhof Airport Faces Closure
NPR - USA - Then in the US sector, the airport was the focal point of Berlin Airlift. Ulrich Kirschbaum was 6 at the time and lived near the airport. ...

The Middle East, 1948, Are we in the Bible's Prophesy "Parable of ...
By PatMarlin - It began with the Berlin Airlift of 1948.* The Soviet collapse was a direct result of the cost of fighting the Cold War. Since Korea the USA has been involved in military hold backs even yet with North Korea to this day.* ...

state of the union transcript
By Justin Timberlake(Justin Timberlake) - This is my father, when he was state of the union transcript Air Force captain, flying cargo planes during the Berlin Airlift. He sent us the picture from Germany, as we waited for him, back here at home. When I was a small boy, ...

        

His Berlin
By Ed Ward(Jon Lebkowsky)
... he never needs an excuse to come to Berlin, where he still has old family friends dating from his father's posting here as the head of OMGUS, the Office of Military Government, US, from 1945 until just before the Berlin blockade. ...

Re: Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome; Synthetic LifeComes Next
By Apptech - "Wake the Alien Queen" / "Berlin Airlift". aka Long long ago in a world not at all far away the masters of internal genetic 'improvement' and destruction and survival fought their battles. The most successful died because they ...

Barack, You're No Jack Kennedy
By Kenneth G. Davenport(Kenneth G. Davenport) - This was borne out, overtly and covertly, in a series of military moves during his presidency: in the Bay of Pigs designed to secure Castro's overthrow, the Berlin Airlift that brought needed food and medicine after the Soviet blockade ...

Hugo Boss: From Airlift To Catwalk
Fashion Wire Daily (subscription) - New York,NY,USA - Staged in central foyer of Tempelhof Airport – the immense 1927 structure used to break the Berlin Blockade – the show attracted Boris Becker, ...

        

Times of The Times
By Brother Mark(Brother Mark) - The current East/West geopolitical alignment in the Middle East is a direct result of the US/Soviet Cold War which officially kicked off with the 1948 Berlin Airlift. The first Constitution for a global government, the Universal ...

Deterring Democracy - MUST READ
By u2r2h(u2r2h) - It thus comes as no real surprise that even before the 1948 Berlin blockade, Churchill privately urged the US government to threaten the Soviet Union with nuclear attack unless the Russians withdrew from East Germany.7 ...

Frank was 'an old fashioned gentleman'
Buckinhamshire Free Press - High Wycombe,England,UK - Frank Stillwell - a navigator in the Berlin Airlift of 1948 - was described as an old fashioned gentleman' who was defined by his career in the RAF. ...

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Funeral of an Air Force hero
Buckinhamshire Free Press - High Wycombe,England,UK - By Tom Pochciol FAMILY and comrades have bid farewell to former RAF Squadron Leader and veteran of the Berlin Airlift Frank Stillwell. ...

        

Keno Brothers
By Met Xiw(Met Xiw) - Permanent exhibits on Berlin Airlift and history of Dover Air Force Base. It’sa big deal but, the Patriots could still choke in the playoffs. The Keno brothers came to Browning today! Leigh (a Browning parent) and Leslie Keno, ...

Passing of a gentleman, warrior
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA - Among the highlights of his career, Hemstreet was the aircraft commander for the first plane to arrive in Berlin as part of the 1961 Berlin Airlift, ...

US-Soviet Relations Heat Up
By Falcon Rookie Blogger(Falcon Rookie Blogger) - We discussed the Berlin Airlift and the significance of that to the Cold War and how that led to the organization of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). This brings us to the Five More! Go to www.nato.int Click on multi-media, ...

        

Talking about Israel agrees to ease Gaza blockade - Israel ...
BUSH WAS EVEN HALF A MAN, HE WOULD START AIRLIFTING SUPPLIES TO GAZA, AS WE DID DURING THE BERLIN AIRLIFT, AND THEN HE WOULD STOP THE 3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR THAT WE SEND TO ISRAEL,WHICH HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST PER-CAPITA INCOMES IN THE ...

Lessons From History
By Whisleblower(Whisleblower) - The other reveals how the Jews slaughtered approximately 13 million helpless German civilians in the first few years after the surrender, before the Berlin Airlift showed the world what benefactors we were, because we needed a new enemy ...

Martin and Bob
By Hotwire(Hotwire) - ... to the needy children of East Berlin who were trapped behind the Iron Curtain of the Soviet Union during the Berlin Blockade and he thought, "I bet these kids would love some candy - just candy - I bet they would like that". ...

        

Eagles Over Berlin .: BookPleasures.com
It is against the background of this blockade that Kati Fabian has set her love story, Eagles Over Berlin, and her feel for the events seem intensely ...

Krugman on Reagan and Obama
By lwd - One is that he “won” the Cold War, when in fact the USSR lost every major confrontation with the West from the 1948 Berlin Airlift though their disastrous attempt to conquer Afghanistan. The USSR collapsed, I believe, more because of ...

        

Sue The Bastards!!!!
He had been an aviator involved in the Berlin airlift and had made his money flying goods into Berlin at the end of World War II. He started a low-cost airline [Laker Airways, in 1966] that flew over the Atlantic. ...

What’s hot in ’08
Sunday Mirror - UK - Go to www.eurostar.co.uk THIS year is the 60th anniversary of the Berlin airlift when Britain and America began a year-long mission dropping essential ...

Brandenburg International is taking shape
By The terminalator(The terminalator) - Berlin clearly needs a worldclass airport, but in gaining BBI, it will perhaps lose one of the world's most historic and interesting. It's worth recalling the architectual grandeur of Templehoff, scene of the Berlin airlift and still ...

        

The Cold War as a Series of Confrontations–Cuban Missile Crisis
By jd - From the Berlin Blockade, through Afghanistan, these two powers confronted each other in a series of confrontations, none of which escalated to all-out war. Many believe that the world has never been closer [...]

Hartnett's the (only) man in 'Harry'
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA -"I was an Army brat in Germany when he ordered the (Berlin) airlift. I know him pretty well." Hartnett is known for the one-man shows he does around town. ...

Wyandotte Tribal Leader upset over Cartoon in Kansas City newspaper
Native Times - USA - ... than Wyandotte Chief Leaford Bearskin who spent World War II flying 46 missions in the pacific theatre and another 29 missions in the Berlin Airlift. ...

Honors World History 60 to 63: The Cold War
By J.T. Burciaga(J.T. Burciaga) - w/in two days American & British planes flying in supplies-The Berlin Airlift - flying round the clock in bad weather - flew > 2 million tons of food, fuel, medicine, machinery - Stalin’s blockade had failed - he ended it May 1949 ...

Come back Harry and give 'em Hell again!
By Old Grouch(Old Grouch) - Surely all Americans must long for the man who fought the Russians (and whipped them) in Berlin with the Berlin airlift which brought food and medicines to the starving citizens of that city. This despite the efforts of the Russians to ...

        

office politics
By Raicha(Raicha) - Paranoia affected his judgement; he miscalculated over the Korean war and the Berlin Airlift and died in 1953 as he was about to arrest more “plotters” against him. His memory still has an uncomfortable resonance in his demolished ...

the noises that he'd make gave me away
By auto_bahn(auto_bahn) - At 15, I'm more concerned about studies and all the materialistic need while 50 years ago teenagers were concerned about not starving to death during the berlin blockade. Its just sad, looking at the berlin blockade video and looking at ...

        

Berlin Airlift reunion of sorts
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA - ... what many consider to be the first battle of the Cold War, Guenther and Gisela Petzold never knew how close the Berlin Airlift came to collapsing. ...

Berlin Airlift reunion of sorts
As teenage residents of West Berlin during what many consider to be the first battle of the Cold War, Guenther and Gisela Petzold never knew how close the Berlin Airlift came to collapsing.

        

Rick Berlin
Boston Globe - United States - ... show tonight with Rick Berlin, whose own Boston rock history began in the '70s with Orchestra Luna and continued in the '80s with Berlin Airlift. ...

Gilbert A. Harrison, 92; 20-year editor of New Republic
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA - Lucius Clay during the Russian blockade and Berlin Airlift. Harrison helped found the American Veterans Committee as a liberal alternative to the American ...

        

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Data Portability and Brands
By renny gleeson - Or maybe that's the Berlin Airlift. Or Ich Binne eine Jelly Donut. or maybe the band Berlin is getting back together...which would maybe be the worst of all those options. What could a world look like where users control their own info, ...

'This is going to be for something big!'
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA - It was the same kind of airplane that was used three years later in the Berlin Airlift. We had a crew of three pilots, a navigator, a radioman and a steward ...

        

 

The Berlin Airlift
By meurglys68 - This post concerns the Berlin Airlift of 1948 – 1949. Since being pummeled into submission following the Second World War, the German populace were very much reliant on the support of the victorious powers for rehabilitation and ...

Our World: Bush's historical parallels
Jerusalem Post - Israel - Militarily, Truman conducted the Berlin airlift to ensure the economic development of western Germany as the anchor of postwar Western European unity ...

Bush's historical parallels
By GS Don Morris, Ph.D.(GS Don Morris, Ph.D.) - Militarily, Truman conducted the Berlin airlift to ensure the economic development of western Germany as the anchor of postwar Western European unity against the Soviets. He also waged the Korean War to contain communist expansion in ...

        

The Cold War in Hindsight
Washington Post - United States - He demonstrates that the Berlin Blockade of 1948, when the United States and Britain supplied the people of the western zones of Berlin with food and coal ...

State of Art.. once upon a time.
By Jenny(Jenny) -"Yup.. this is what they flew on the Berlin Airlift.... state of the art at the time." Sitting at those controls, imagining what generations of pilots from that time to this might have seen.. just awesome. Pretty darn neat day. :D.

        

German Court OKs Berlin Airport Closure
FOX News - USA - By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, AP Writer BERLIN — Historic Tempelhof Airport _ which played a key role in the Berlin airlift in the wake of World War II _ will ...

The Cold War
There were repeated crises that threatened to escalate into world wars but never did, notably the Berlin Blockade (1948-1949), the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1959-1975), the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), ...

 

        

Thomas E. Dewey - Tha Man who who brought Murder Inc. to its knees !
By ADMITNOTHING(ADMITNOTHING) - Dewey, however, supported the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, recognition of Israel, and the Berlin airlift. Dewey was repeatedly urged by the right wing of his party to engage in red-baiting, but he refused. ...

The Five Best Books I Read in 2007
By John Adams - Stories like the Berlin airlift (when the Allies had to fly food and supplies into Berlin, which was besieged on every side by Soviet forces), the student revolts of May ‘68, the formation of the EU, and Europe’s paralysis in dealing ...

Liberalism Will Lose This “Cold War”
By Christopher G. Adamo - ... the area thereby providing a lifeline of food and supplies to the beleaguered West Berliners. In many respects, the famous operation that became known as the Berlin Airlift represented the initial indirect “volley” of the Cold War.

Berlin-Germany (1)12-2007
By M.N.O(M.N.O) - However, the growing political differences between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union led the latter, which controlled the territory surrounding Berlin, to impose the Berlin Blockade, an economic blockade of West Berlin. ...

        

 

DECEMBER  2007

 

“The Strongest Trans-Atlantic Relations…”
By Joerg Wolf - I mean, maybe I’m nostalgic for the good old days of the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift, or even the good old days of the 1980s when NATO stood against the Soviet threat. I wouldn’t say our relations with Europe and the world are ...

Martin Jones
By jbydlak - Martin Jones, US Air Force (1947 - 1956), Berlin Airlift; US Air Force Air Rescue Service, Strategic Air Command; Small Business Owner. “I endorse Dr. Paul because he is the candidate with integrity, knowledge of and respect for the ...

        

Liberalism Will Lose This “Cold War”
WEBCommentary - USA - In many respects, the famous operation that became known as the Berlin Airlift represented the initial indirect “volley” of the Cold War. ...

Historic Berlin Airport To Close in 2008
Jaunted - USA - After World War II, it was the launching point for the Berlin Airlift. And Western forces maintained a presence at Tempelhof throughout the Cold War. ...

BOOK REVIEW: Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War
By critcalmass - At worst, he has to intuit Soviet motives, as when he sensibly concludes that the Soviet obsession with the caloric intake of the prisoners, at the height of the Berlin Blockade crisis no less, “reveals the implicit Soviet belief that ...

Who Has Been Shitting In My Yard?
By ET(ET) - His son was Army General Lucius Clay who was responsible for the Berlin Airlift – he was a hometown hero. One day on the way home from school Tony H. had an urge to take a dump. The trees and trimmed bushes in the Clay front yard ...

Airport group honors Birds
Bonner County Daily Bee - Sandpoint,ID,USA - John Korn presented the Birds with a model of a C54 transport airplane used in the Berlin Airlift (June 27, 1948 to May 12, 1949). ...

        

The "Legacy" Dilemma
By The History Rat(The History Rat) - The GI Bill, The Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan, The 1946 railway Strike, The Berlin Airlift, and Desegregation of the US Army are all seen as the highlights of modern presidential action and legislation. Although the Marshall Plan ...

Supervolcano part 1 channel newsasia
By Mina Malo(Mina Malo) - FReeper Canteen ~ Berlin Airlift Part 1 ~ Dec. 3, 2007 This from Channel NewsAsia: TOKYO : At least twenty-five people were killed highly active earthquake zone is a supervolcano that almost extinguished the Just watched an episode of ...

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US President, Harry S.Truman :
By SURiMOUNT(SURiMOUNT) - During his tenure, Marhsall Plan, Use of the Atom Bomb, Berlin Airlift and many other great deeds of historic importance took place. His detailed biography from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S.Truman ...

        

Derek Davison
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom - Davison soon found himself involved in the Berlin Airlift, flying Avro Tudors from RAF Wunstorf, in Germany, with supplies for the beleaguered city. ...

Berlin’s Tempelhof to Close Next Year
New York Times - United States -
The airport’s closing will tuck away nearly 100 years of history that include Orville Wright flight demonstrations, Nazi rallies and the Berlin Airlift, ...

        

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German court approves 2008 closure of Berlin´s historic Tempelhof ...
JETS.ru - Moscow,Russia - Historic Tempelhof Airport — which played a key role in the Berlin airlift in the wake of World War II — will close to passengers in 2008, Germany´s top ...

Parker might have become the sort of glamorous star Actress
By audra - The Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an. Supreme Court overturned the decision in on a Free ...

        

Harry S. Truman by Margaret Truman.
By RayS(RayS) - ... negotiations with Churchill and Stalin, the dropping of the atomic bomb, the shift from a war-time to a peace-time economy, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin blockade, Palestine, the Korean War and the dismissal of MacArthur. ...

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The Free World Comments on the Choice of Its New Leader
The Moderate Voice - USA - ... the right and might displayed by winning the world wars, the Berlin Airlift, the rebuilding of the defeated countries, the great philanthropists and so ...

The Free World Comments on the Choice of Its New Leader
By Robin Koerner - ... the Constitution that puts individual liberty above any doctrine, the right and might displayed by winning the world wars, the Berlin Airlift, the rebuilding of the defeated countries, the great philanthropists and so on and so on. ...

        

Happy Birthday, DC-3
By mike pope - After the war, the plane continued to find utility for the military, and saw service in the Berlin Airlift and beyond. In Vietnam it appeared in one of its more unusual incaranations as "Puff the Flying Dragon," where its large cargo ...

Putin says he will Kaitlin cullum PM job.
By charles48 - The Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin. Justice Earl Warren announced he was resigning. (more...)

Howard Shanker: We Must Become the Party of Boldness, Not Acquiescence
By Howard Shanker(webmaster@huffingtonpost.com) - As Democrats, we are the party of bold measures such as the New Deal, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift and Apollo project to reach the moon. More importantly, every single day as Americans we continue what is often called a "bold ...

NASA-Langley engineer joins First Flight Shrine
The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA - ... of CH-46 helicopters, a HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, and two passes of the C-54 Candy Bomber like the aircraft that participated in the Berlin Airlift. ...

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By mailrealnc - Rock musician Robby Takac Goo Goo Dolls is. In, the Berlin Airlift came to an end. Com i msnbc Components Art SITEWIDE Icons iSlides. Com i msnbc Components Art SITEWIDE Icons iDiscuss. Secrets restaurants don't want you to know. ...

The 1955 State Treaty and Austrian Neutrality
By SMAR(SMAR) - The Soviet Union dropped its support for Yugoslav territorial claims against Austria in 1948 when Yugoslavia broke with the Soviet Union, but new issues arose to block progress toward ending the occupation: the Berlin blockade of 1948; ...

Humanitarian Relief
By afnews@afnews.af.mil () - One of its first major milestones after the Air Force separated as an independent service was the "birth" of the humanitarian mission -- the Berlin Airlift. The airlift of food and supplies lasted 462 days and sustained a population ...

        

They Hate Us For Our Freedoms?
By usexpatriate(usexpatriate) - Berlin Airlift. PHILIPPINES/ 1948-54/ Command operation/ CIA directs war against Huk Rebellion. PUERTO RICO\ 1950/ Troops, naval, bombing, nuclear threats/ Independence rebellion crushed in Ponce. KOREA/ 1951-53(-? ...

Dec. 17, 1935: First Flight of the DC-3, Soon to Be an Aviation Legend
Wired News - USA - Following the war, a number of C-47s remained in the military: They formed the backbone of the fleet pressed into service during the Berlin Airlift, ...

Battle goes on to keep Berlin's Tempelhof Airport open - Feature
Earthtimes - London,UK -"It is a symbol of the freedom and the future of this city, and was once a vital artery in West Berlin's survival campaign during the Berlin blockade. ...

There's nothing noble about being a soldier (essay)
By borgo - From the Berlin Airlift up to the present there's one thing you can count on and that's when the shit hits the fan in the form of earthquakes, hurricanes, floods or some other type of natural disaster, it's usually the soldiers that are ...

        

Sir Arthur C. Clarke completes 90 'orbits around the sun
By Priyantha De Silva - Although GCA did not see much practical use in the war, after several more years of development it was vital to the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949. He was demobilised with the rank of Flight Lieutenant. Later, his only non-science-fiction ...

Berlin Arrivals
By Dennis - Only one plane, which has been set up as a memorial, reminds us that this airport right at the heart of Berlin's most multicultural district has once seen its busiest time, in a period of severe hardship: during the Berlin Blockade and ...

        

Elizabeth City
By matthorr(matthorr) - A group (who I first met at an airshow in St Paul, MN, in 1998) of pilots were at my hotel - they were flying a R5D from the Berlin Airlift (also known as a C-54 or Douglas DC-4). I saw the plane taxiing and taking off at the airport ...

Tschuess Berlin! (Goodbye, Berlin!)
By Matt in Germany(Matt in Germany) - (Ernst Reuter, Governing Mayor, during the Berlin blockade, 1948) [1]. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" (Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, speech at the Brandenburg Gate, 1987). "Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin" ...

Crimes of US Imperialism
By Iosif Stalin - GERMANY, 1948, Nuclear Threat, Atomic-capable bombers guard Berlin Airlift. CHINA, 1948-49, Troops/Marines, evacuate Americans before Communist victory. PHILIPPINES, 1948-54, Command operation, CIA directs war against Huk Rebellion. ...

        

Spirit of Freedom helps history take flight for area students
Kids tour Berlin Airlift museum.

Veterans talk, students listen
Basehor Sentinel - Bonner Springs,KS,USA - After re-enlisting, he headed off to Germany where he recalled the Berlin Airlift, which was the start of the Cold War. Both Grishman and Lewis said ...

        

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Kati Fabian, the Hungarian author living in Los Angeles, launches the distribution of her novel on September 11, 2005. Since she was an eyewitness of the ...

        

I wasn't the first to say it, but seldom has there been a more ...
By Ompah Sanchez(Ompah Sanchez) - ... etc., and were it not for the United States (motives aside) plopping down one million troops, rebuilding infrastructure along with the occasional "surge" (Berlin Airlift), that group of over-privileged Germans grouped together by ...

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Every Airman ... an airpower advocate
By afnews@afnews.af.mil (Lt. Col. Rick Matton) - We've had this capability from the inception of our service as demonstrated during the Berlin Airlift in the late 1940s. This amazing operation showed the world that we could not only establish an air bridge to provide food and supplies ...

Germany to close historic airport
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA - BERLIN - Tempelhof Airport, which played a key role in the Berlin airlift after World War II, will close to passengers in 2008, Germany's top administrative ...

World Briefing | Europe: Germany: Tempelhof Airport to Close Next Year
By Soplenta Roas(Soplenta Roas) - Tempelhof Airport is known for one of the most important stories in aviation history, the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and 1949.

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