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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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: ...

WIESBADEN, Germany — Thousands of Americans and Germans gathered at Clay Kaserne over the weekend as the Army and the state of Hessen commemorated one of the largest and most significant humanitarian ...

At the beginning of the airlift, the conventional wisdom on both the Allied and Soviet sides was that Berlin could not be supplied indefinitely by air, that it would only be a matter of time before ...

As teenage residents of West Berlin during what many consider to be the first battle of the Cold War, Guenther and Gisela Petzold never knew how close the Berlin Airlift came to collapsing. It wasn't ...

DENVER (AP) — A U.S. military pilot known as the "Candy Bomber" for his airdrops of sweets during the Berlin airlift after World War II ended has died. Gail Halvorsen died Wednesday in his home state ...

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 ...