The Berlin Airlift

The Berlin Airlift On the morning of June 25, 1948, newspapers came out with disturbing front-page news. All night, news editors in West Berlin had been busy remaking the front pages of their morning papers because of a flash from the Soviet-sponsored news agency in East Berlin: “The transport division of the Soviet military administration is compelled to halt all passenger and freight traffic to and from Berlin tomorrow at 0600 hours because of technical difficulties. West Berlin …

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