The Berlin Airlift: A City Supplied from the Sky
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In June 1948, Stalin closed the roads, rails, and canals into West Berlin. More than two million people faced hunger in a city a hundred miles inside Soviet-controlled Germany. Host Jim Rand tells the story of Operation Vittles — Truman’s decision to stay, General Lucius Clay’s refusal to abandon the outpost, William Tunner’s airborne conveyor belt, Gail Halvorsen’s candy drops, and the airlift that fed a city until the blockade broke. Flour, coal, and an unbroken schedule became the…
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