Keeping the Berlin Airlift Alive: The Berlin Airlift Remembrance Alliance

The Berlin Airlift lasted only fifteen months, from June 1948 to September 1949, yet it changed the course of modern history. It demonstrated that the Western Allies could resist Soviet expansion without firing a shot, sustained more than two million West Berliners through one of the Cold War’s first great crises, and laid the groundwork for the democratic and prosperous Europe that…