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Saturday, July 12, 2008 --- 56 days ago http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/11/1195062.aspx
 By John Rutherford, Producer, NBC News Gail "Hal" Halvorsen was among a special group of Americans who changed the course of history 60 years ago this summer. Halvorsen was a U.S. Air Force pilot who flew food and supplies into Berlin in 1948 and helped break the Soviet blockade of the beleaguered German capital. "If the airlift had failed, those people would have been speaking Russian in West Berlin, and West Germany was next," the 87-year-old Halvorsen said in a recent interview. AFP/Getty Images Gail "Hal" Halvorsen gives a thumbs at the U.S. military airbase in Frankfurt, Germany, in October 2005. Germany after World War II was divided between the Allied Forces – the United States, Great Britain and France - in the West, and the Soviet Union in the East. Berlin, located in the eastern, Soviet half of the country, was divided into four sectors, with West Berlin occupied by the Allied forces and East Berlin occupied by the Soviets. In one of the first major international crises of the Cold War , on June 24, 1948, Soviet forces began blocking highway and railroad access to the Western sectors of Berlin. The Soviets hoped to force the Western powers out of Berlin and seize control of the city for themselves. The Allies responded by launching the Airlift. ...( read more ) ... |
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