blockade, 1948-1949

Tells how U.S. air pilot Gail Halvorsen air dropped candy to children in post World War II Germany.

Tells the story of the World War II pilots, navigators, and mechanics who were recalled to duty in 1948 when Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin blockaded Berlin, hoping to drive out small detachments of American, British, and French occupation troops.

The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.

Describes the efforts of US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen to aid the children in Russian-blockaded West Berlin by dropping packages filled with candy from the air. Features personal photographs, along with letters and drawings from the children of Berlin.

Describes the Berlin Blockade of 1948 and 1949, its causes, and its consequences.

Describes the 1948-49 airlift by which the U.S. and Great Britain brought food and supplies to West Berlin during a blockade of the city by the Soviet Union.

Chronicles the events surrounding the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949, explaining how it demonstrated the power of air logistics as a political instrument and became the first Western victory of the Cold War.

Examines the operation of Soviet and Western diplomacy, the behavior of a population under physical and psychological stress, and the part played by public opinion in a cold war crisis, through a study of the Berlin blockade which was initiated in June 1948 when the Soviet Union cut overland communications between the city and West Germany.

In 1948 Berlin, Germany, while trying to survive the Russian blockade of the city and also grieving for his father and sister who were killed in the war, thirteen-year-old Erich is befriended by a United States airman.