Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists block ground-supply routes into West Berlin, would another massive airlift work? The most experienced airlift expert of them all, retired Air Force Lieut. General William H. Tunner, is certain that it would. He even has a plan detailing just how it could be done...
UNDER the Kennedy program of increased flexibility, the Air Force will increase its airlift capacity-now one of the weakest links in U.S. defenses-by calling up an unannounced number of reserve squadrons flying C-124s, and Air National Guard squadrons equipped with C-97s. In addition, the Air Force will keep in service some C-118s that were scheduled for deactivation. By squeezing more mileage out of these aging, prop-driven planes, the Air Force will boost its airlift capability by 25%, will be able to fly two divisions to Europe in about two weeks. Looking ahead...
...those Cubans who prefer to take another direction, the U.S. last week held out a tantalizing hope. The State Department offered to sponsor a free airlift for more than 20,000 Cubans still waiting in Havana with visas or special waivers to come to the U.S. The $350,000 to charter ten Pan American flights a day for 20 days would come out of emergency foreign-aid funds. There was only one catch: the U.S. had not told Castro. At week's end, as Pan American's third plane approached Havana, Castro suddenly limited round-trip flights between...
...would plague him later when he became President. The Russians, violating their pledge to help reunify Germany and hold democratic elections, made trouble in Berlin from the start, finally brought all road, barge and rail traffic to a halt in the summer of 1948. A remarkable, eleven-month Allied airlift broke the blockade-but strengthened Soviet determination to swallow Berlin, which had become a "bone in the Soviet throat." In 1958 Khrushchev demanded that the West remove its 11,000 troops, permit Berlin to become a "free city." (Moscow, of course, was to have a loud, obstructive voice in supervising...
...Will. Thanks to the experience of the 1948 airlift, both Berlin and the West are far 'better equipped to face any new Soviet (or East German) blockade. The city's government has stockpiled more than a year's worth of food, fuel and clothing, has recently stepped up the gathering of emergency supplies. The U.S. Air Force, which once saved Berlin with slow-moving EUR-475 and EUR-545, now has five to seven times the airlift capacity of a decade ago, with its swift C-13O turboprops and slow but massive (56,000-lb. capacity...