This summer marked the 60th anniversary of the Allies' airlift of food and medicine into West Berlin in East Germany, an attempt to avert a potential crisis from a blockade by the Soviet Union. The ...

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 ...

First Lt. Randolph "Randy" Tully, who would later become a prominent Rantoul businessman, flew the first plane into Berlin at the start of the airlift in 1948. He would go on to fly numerous plane ...

EDWARD GOLDSTEIN, af.mil Special to The Gazette Jul 2, 2023 Jul 2, 2023 ARLINGTON, Va. • Seventy-five years ago, midway through a century marred by bloody conflict, the world faced a grave new crisis.