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Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949

Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 316 Publisher: Simon & Schuster In the early hours of June 26 1948. Phones began ringing across America Waking up the AIRMEN with of World War II-pilots. Navigators and mechanics- who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses. new jobs. new wives. and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight hours to report to local military bases. The president. Harry S. Truman. was recalling them to active duty to try to save the desperate people of the western sectors of Berlin. the enemy capital many of them had bombed to rubble only three years before.Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had ordered a blockade of the city. isolating the people of West Berlin. using hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers to close off all land and water access to the city. He was gambling that he could drive out the small detachments of American. itish. and Fren...

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