Author: Helena P Schrader
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752468030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
On 24 June 1948 the Soviet Union abruptly closed all land and water access to the Western Sectors of Berlin. Over 2 million civilians, dependent on the surrounding territory and the West for food, fuel, and other basic goods, were suddenly cut off from all necessities of life. The Western Allies had the option of withdrawing their garrisons and allowing the Soviet Union to take control of the entire of city, or of trying to supply the city by air. Never in history had 2 million people been supplied exclusively by air before. None of senior military commanders believed it could be done. But the political leadership in London and Washington insisted that it must be done. So the largest and most ambitious Airlift in history was set in motion. It began without the West really knowing what the Berliners needed in order to survive - much less how much those supplies weighed. It was launched despite an almost complete absence of aircraft and aircrew resources in Germany and despite the serious inadequacies in airfields and air traffic control. It was launched without airlift expertise in theatre or a unified command structure. But once it was took wing, it flew and turned into something that not even its originators and advocators had ever imagined or expected.
The Blockade Breakers
Author: Helena P Schrader
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752468030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
On 24 June 1948 the Soviet Union abruptly closed all land and water access to the Western Sectors of Berlin. Over 2 million civilians, dependent on the surrounding territory and the West for food, fuel, and other basic goods, were suddenly cut off from all necessities of life. The Western Allies had the option of withdrawing their garrisons and allowing the Soviet Union to take control of the entire of city, or of trying to supply the city by air. Never in history had 2 million people been supplied exclusively by air before. None of senior military commanders believed it could be done. But the political leadership in London and Washington insisted that it must be done. So the largest and most ambitious Airlift in history was set in motion. It began without the West really knowing what the Berliners needed in order to survive - much less how much those supplies weighed. It was launched despite an almost complete absence of aircraft and aircrew resources in Germany and despite the serious inadequacies in airfields and air traffic control. It was launched without airlift expertise in theatre or a unified command structure. But once it was took wing, it flew and turned into something that not even its originators and advocators had ever imagined or expected.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752468030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
On 24 June 1948 the Soviet Union abruptly closed all land and water access to the Western Sectors of Berlin. Over 2 million civilians, dependent on the surrounding territory and the West for food, fuel, and other basic goods, were suddenly cut off from all necessities of life. The Western Allies had the option of withdrawing their garrisons and allowing the Soviet Union to take control of the entire of city, or of trying to supply the city by air. Never in history had 2 million people been supplied exclusively by air before. None of senior military commanders believed it could be done. But the political leadership in London and Washington insisted that it must be done. So the largest and most ambitious Airlift in history was set in motion. It began without the West really knowing what the Berliners needed in order to survive - much less how much those supplies weighed. It was launched despite an almost complete absence of aircraft and aircrew resources in Germany and despite the serious inadequacies in airfields and air traffic control. It was launched without airlift expertise in theatre or a unified command structure. But once it was took wing, it flew and turned into something that not even its originators and advocators had ever imagined or expected.
Three Years on the Blockade
Author: Israel Everett Vail
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Blockade and the Cruisers
Author: James Russell Soley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Blockade-runners
Author: Dave Horner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Includes Charleston and Drunken Dick Shoal.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Includes Charleston and Drunken Dick Shoal.
The adventures of a blockade runner; or, Trade in time of war
Author: William Watson (of Skelmorlie.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Running the Blockade
Author: Thomas E. Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Fair Blockade-breaker
Author: Thomas Cooper De Leon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Adventures of a Blockade Runner
Author: William Watson
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5878530880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5878530880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Baffling the Blockade
Author: James Macdonald Oxley
Publisher: London ; New York : T. Nelson
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher: London ; New York : T. Nelson
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Blockade and the Cruisers
Author: James Russell Soley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description