The Berlin Airlift: How the Brand-New Air Force Fed a City From the Sky (Illustrated Ebook)
In June 1948 the Soviet Union cut every road, rail line and canal into West Berlin. For fifteen months the city was supplied by air.
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A 29-page illustrated history of Operation Vittles, expanded from Episode 1 of Sortie Stories. It covers:
- How three 20-mile-wide air corridors became the city's lifeline
- The first chaotic weeks, Clay's modest early hopes of 600-700 tons a day, and the warning that the airlift was "doomed to failure"
- "Black Friday" and how William Tunner rebuilt the airlift as a conveyor belt
- Gail Halvorsen, the "Candy Bomber," and Operation Little Vittles
- The coal winter, the building of Tegel, and the record "Easter Parade" of 1949
- What it cost and why it mattered
It includes 18 archival photographs and period diagrams, an original map, a timeline, a "by the numbers" page, and a full list of sources and image credits.
Format: PDF, 7x10 in, 29 pages, about 5.9 MB.
How it was made: the text was drafted with AI assistance from our sourced episode script, then fact-checked against the published sources listed in the book. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it in the next edition (free update).
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Unofficial. Logbook Press / Sortie Stories is an independent history project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Air Force or the Department of War (Department of Defense). Photos are U.S. government public-domain works.
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