The Berlin Airlift

It's the end of WW2 and the beginning of the Cold War...Millions of people are starving and cut off by the Berlin wall.  So the US decides to supply an entire city by air! 

Episode Transcript

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The air bridge. We'll discuss aswe take a bite out of history with
Engles markets. It's nineteen forty eight. World War two has ended and the
Soviets went the Allies out of Berlin, the Soviet States of blockade that cuts
off all land and sea routes toWest Berlin and essentially trapping two million people
with no food, fuel, meds, or other life sustaining supplies. President
Truman will not allow a military response, afraid that it may spark yet another

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World war. Instead, the UnitedStates began the Berlin Airlift. Planes took
off from England and Germany loaded downto the full gross weights. Crews scraped
everything and everything that was not neededto keep the plane in the air to
reduce weight. They were airlifting eightthousand tons of supplies a day and using
planes that had already just barely surviveda world war. Planes were landing every
four minutes around the clock, andit was the largest supply airlift in history.

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Dale Halverson, an Air Force pilot, liked add in candy bars with
parachutes to his supply runs. He'dget his plane low and rock his wings
with the kids knew which plane hadthe chocolates given Gale, the nickname Candy
Bomber. This has been a biteout of history with a ghost markets