February 4-11: President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchilll, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta and confirm a plan to divide both Germany and the city of Berlin ...

Retired Col. Gail Halvorsen attends a ceremony to dedicate the baseball and softball field of the Berlin Braves baseball team in 'Gail Halvorsen Park' in Berlin, Saturday, May 11. (Associated Press) ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Shortly before a small band of World War ll veterans gathered in France this week for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, ...

The drop came on the 60th anniversary of the day the Soviets lifted their blockade strangling West Berlin. More than 100,000 Berliners turned out in honor of the 120 American, British and French ...

DENVER (AP) — U.S. military pilot Gail S. Halvorsen — known as the “Candy Bomber” for his candy airdrops during the Berlin airlift after World War II ended — has died at age 101. Halvorsen died ...

(Reuters) - This week marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the Berlin airlift. Below is the history and some facts behind the western allies' response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin: ...

As I sat talking with a German the other day in a room in a New York hotel, I felt as if by some magic I had been transported to the capital of the old Reich, which I last visited two years ago My ...