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City Under Siege
Michael D. Haydock
其他書名
The Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-1949
出版Brassey's, 1999
主題History / Europe / GermanyHistory / Wars & Conflicts / GeneralHistory / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European TheaterHistory / Modern / 20th Century / General
ISBN15748814269781574881424
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9VVoAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋At the close of World War II, the Soviet Union controlled all of eastern Germany except the Allied sectors of Berlin. In June 1948, Soviet authorities halted the West's land access to the city, apparently dooming the inhabitants of its Western sectors to starvation. Allied planes - mostly American but some British - immediately began a massive supply airlift that lasted fifteen months. Flying 276,926 dangerous missions, often in bad weather, and bringing in 2.3 million tons of food and coal, the Berlin Airlift cost the lives of 75 U.S. and British airmen but saved the besieged enclave.