Airlift. "Just as a trickle of water can, if sufficiently prolonged, wear down the stoutest rock, "wrote The New Yorker 's E. J. Kahn in May 1949, "so the airlift, with its unostentatious but ceaseless trickle of flights, carved a hole in the Soviet blockade of [ West] Berlin. "A week later, Stalin ended his effort to starve the city into submission.
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During the summer of 1948, the future of West Berlin seemed to hang in the balance. On June 24, Josef Stalin...