2023年11月2日 · Our timeline is a bulleted listing of major points in the history of the Berlin Airlift. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin proposes the formation of a Western Union which led to the Treaty of Brussels, which was a countermeasure aimed towards Russian expansion and aggression. The Treaty of Brussels is signed on March 17.

The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.

2011年3月9日 · The Berlin Airlift was the name of an operation that carried supplies by plane to the Allied sectors of West Berlin over a Russian blockade in the late 1940s.

2024年10月7日 · The Berlin Airlift 1948/49 Three years after Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945 and the resulting occupation by the four victorious powers, Berlin experienced a crisis that from today’s perspective appears as the first great conflict of the Cold War.

June 26: The Berlin airlift begins with 32 flights by American C-47 aircraft in West Germany to the Tempelhof airport in Berlin. Eighty tons of provisions are delivered that first day.

As the Cold War’s first confrontation between western nations and the Soviet Union, the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949 was a highly significant historical event, with continuing relevance and resonance in the present day.

On June 26, 1948 the Berlin Airlift – die Luftbrücke (air bridge) in German – began operation. Everything the Berliners needed to survive — from groceries to gasoline – would come to them only by air until the end of September 1949. The airlift lasted over 15 …

August 5, 1948- Oberpfaffenhofen undertakes the 200-hour inspection of Airlift aircraft. The first goods manufactured within Berlin, are flown to the West. Ground is broken for the construction of a new airport in Berlin-Tegel, situated in the French sector.

2021年5月6日 · A timeline chronology of the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Airlift including the background causes and details of the main events

The Airlift Begins. Americans first plan was flying supply our Berlin garrisons of 25,000 soldiers. West Berlin was surrounded by over 250,000 Soviet troops. But a British commander, R. W. Waite had developed a plan to feed the total population using available aircraft.