 "Stamford Mercury & Citizen (Stamford, England)")
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Germans praise plans to mark Berlin Airlift anniversary.
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GUESTS from Germany visited Stamford to reveal a programme of events to mark the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift.
Husband and wife Horst and Baerbal Simon, who are curators of the Cold War Museum in Berlin, spoke to war veterans from Stamford and the Deepings on Monday about their plans to mark the anniversary.
The Cresset Theatre in Peterborough will host a concert in June to commemorate the start of the airlift. There will also be a veterans' day at t...
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Germany beckons Cold War GIs
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; ... accidentally in Germany, training to prevent WWIII. So what did the more perceptive reviewers of this travesty think? New York Daily News film critic Jack Mathews said, "The underlying premise is that Army bases are a microcosm of the inner-city life, the expenses-pa ...
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I Always Wanted to Fly: America's Cold War Airmen. (Book Reviews).
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; ... W E. Samuel. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Maps. Tables. Illustrations. Photographs. Glossary Bibliography Index ... the Free Information Card. In many cases, the author includes maps indicating a mission's flight path. This, thankfully, negates ...
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Berlin airlift reunion date.
Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
; PLANES and pilots involved in the historic and heroic Berlin airlift 50 years ago will be reunited at a Midlands air show next month. The multi-purpose DC3 Dakota and the four-engined DC4 Skymaster will join other famous aircraft at the Cosford Air Show in Shropshire on June 14. The two planes
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To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949
Airpower Journal
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; 00-00-0000 RHEIN-MAIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFNS) -- A group of GIs cuts it up on the dance floor with Red Cross volunteers and German civilians to the sound of big band music. Another group tosses bags of coal to prepare an aircraft for loading. A young Berlin girl cries out to her departed father
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; 00-00-0000 WIESBADEN, Germany (AFNS) -- Streets on Wiesbaden Air Base were recently marked with new signs bearing the names of American servicemembers who died during the Berlin Airlift. The signs were relocated from nearby Lindsey Air Station, which closed in 1993. Twenty-eight Air Force, one
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State man's job was part of history Oshkosh native had role in Berlin Airlift mission during the Cold War
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; A Wisconsin man who helped Allied airplanes drop food, coal, candy and other goods to a blockaded West Berlin says it took time to fully understand the importance of his job. "I didn't realize how major a historic event this was until I took a look back," said Dan Paulick, an Oshkosh native. June
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