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"Last week, after the Russians announced they would lift the blockade on May 12 [1949], the airlift took a bow and added a modest nod at the 324-day record:

• 189,247 flights;

• 1,528,250 tons delivered;

• best day's work: April 16 with 12,947 tons hauled in 1,393 flights.

[- and if the West had not chosen to answer the Soviet challenge in Berlin] "there might never have been an Atlantic Pact or a Western German state. The Communists might have gone amok in France and Italy. Russia might have won the Cold War in the first heat."]

     


A Look Back at the Berlin Air-Lift (Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)

A Look Back at the Berlin Air-Lift (Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)

A Look Back at the Berlin Air-Lift (Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)

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