Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on June 24, 1948, as word that the Soviet Union had cut off power and other essential services ...

This summer marked the 60th anniversary of the Allies' airlift of food and medicine into West Berlin in East Germany, an attempt to avert a potential crisis from a blockade by the Soviet Union. The ...

Humanitarian assistance has become a political football. It took months of bitter debate before Congress passed a critical $95 billion package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan in late April, providing ...

This year marks the 75th year anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. The American and British militaries and the people of West Berlin won one of the Cold War’s greatest victories 75 years ago. In May ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The U.S. Army celebrated the 75th anniversary of The Berlin Airlift this summer in Wiesbaden, Germany. Missouri’s President Harry S. Truman faced the crisis in the late 1940s ...

A piece of post-World War II history captivated crowds at the Shop ‘n Save Westmoreland Airshow as a DC-54 four-engine cargo plane was among the attractions. The Douglas DC-54 helped hundreds of ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Shortly before a small band of World War ll veterans gathered in France this week for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, ...

(Reuters) - This week marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the Berlin airlift. Below is the history and some facts behind the western allies' response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin: ...

Frankfurt, Germany, July 7, 1948: Berlin Airlift pilots receive their final orders before flying another load of coal out of Rhein-Main Air Base, one of the two hubs (along with Wiesbaden) of the ...

DENVER — U.S. military pilot Gail S. Halvorsen — known as the "Candy Bomber" for his candy airdrops during the Berlin airlift after World War II ended — has died at age 101. Halvorsen died Wednesday ...

A group of German children stand atop building rubble, cheering a United States cargo airplane as it flies over a western section of Berlin in 1948. Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Humanitarian ...

February 4-11: President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchilll, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta and confirm a plan to divide both Germany and the city of Berlin ...