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100 1  Grehan, John,|eauthor. 
245 14 The Berlin Airlift :|bThe World's Largest Ever Air Supply 
       Operation /|cJohn Grehan. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bPen & Sword Books,
       |c[2019] 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    1 online resource (192 pages) 
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520    "The fate of the free world hung in the balance. Stalin's 
       Soviet Union sought to drive the Western democracies from 
       Germany to continue the communist advance across Europe. 
       The first step in Stalin's scheme was to bring Berlin 
       under Soviet control. Berlin was situated deep inside the 
       Soviet-occupied region of the country, but the German 
       capital had been divided into two halves, one of which was
       occupied by the Soviet Union, the other, in separate 
       sectors, by Britain, France and the USA. Stalin decided to
       make the Allied hold on West Berlin untenable by shutting 
       down all the overland routes used to keep the city 
       supplied. The choice faced by the Allies was a stark one -
       let Berlin fall, or risk war with the Soviets by breaking 
       the Soviet stranglehold. In a remarkably visionary move, 
       the Allies decided that they could keep Berlin supplied by
       flying over the Soviet blockade, thus avoiding armed 
       conflict with the USSR. On 26 June 1948, the Berlin 
       Airlift began. Throughout the following thirteen months, 
       more than 266,600 flights were undertaken by the men and 
       aircraft from the US, France, Britain and across the 
       Commonwealth, which delivered in excess of 2,223,000 tons 
       of food, fuel and supplies in the greatest airlift in 
       history. The air-bridge eventually became so effective 
       that more supplies were delivered to Berlin than had 
       previously been shipped overland and Stalin saw that his 
       bid to seize control of the German capital could never 
       succeed. At one minute after midnight on 12 May 1949, the 
       Soviet blockade was lifted, and the Soviet advance into 
       Western Europe was brought to a shuddering halt."--
       |cProvided by Freading. 
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650  0 Airdrop|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|zGermany|zBerlin. 
650  7 HISTORY / Military / Aviation.|2bisacsh 
655  0 Electronic books. 
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