Hard to believe it has been twenty years since the Berlin Wall cracked open, then came down, and now can hardly be found! The above is a pin this blogger bought on a trip to Berlin four years after that historic date. At the top, memorial crosses set up for some of those killed trying to get across the wall...
On June 26th Germans celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of "Operation Vittles" a.k.a the Berlin Airlift. When the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin the U.S. and Britain began an airlift to supply food and fuel… Eleven months, 278,000 flights and 2.3 million tons of food later history had been made and the Soviet Union threw in the towel.
From this effort emerged many great stories and heroes, such as “Onkel Wackelflügel" (“Uncle Wiggly Wings” a.k.a. Gail Halvorsen) and the other “candy bombers.” Read the linked stories!
