The Berlin Airlift That Shouldn’t Have Worked

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  @schweinhund7966 · 1 year ago

  Excellent video class.  In 2003, I was in Berlin in a restaurant.  The young man waiter asked me if I was an American veteran.  I was.  I got a 20% discount on my meal!  The Berliners never forgot Operation Vittles; Checkpoint Charlie; Kennedy’s speech; Reagan’s speech nor the quality of life the West gave them.  Berliners are my FRIENDS.

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• DA

  @dave_yeg8596 · 10 days ago

  Those folks were magnificent.

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  @MrRobster1234 · 2 years ago

  Gail Halverson lived to be 101 years.

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• CH

  @christerlindstrom8559 · 6 months ago

  America is still great. We owe you our freedom. Good bless you. Finn

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• RA

  @razorramona9963 · 1 year ago (edited)

  My dad flew this for 7 months, lovingly referred to the C47 as "gooney bird" 😂. He said it was quite monotonous, and I grew up never knowing what spam, Oreos, and fruit cocktail were because after 7 months of having sea rations while flying te lift he banned them in the house.  😂 He and his crew did develop COPD from flying so much coal and of course smoking all the Lucky Strikes that also came in the rations, but he said it was quite rewarding to see all the people who came out and waved and cheering.

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• AN

  @anthonyvallillo422 · 11 months ago

  This is, without doubt, the best program about the Berlin airlift I have yet seen. Outstanding!

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• SI

  @sirstiffpilchard · 10 months ago

  What a magnificent effort - well done guys.

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• TI

  @timj41 · 10 months ago

  When America was truly "great"

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• CL

  @ClausJørgensen-u9g · 1 year ago

  Very well made ! Covering the different aspects very well, THANKS FOR SHARING !

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• TI

  @Tim.NavVet.EN2 · 1 year ago

  The C-82 was the Flying &quot;Packet&quot;, the larger and improved C-119 was the &quot;Flying Boxcar&quot;.<br>The R-4360 (a 28 cylinder, 4 row) Radial Engine wasn&apos;t ready in time for the bigger plane.<br>The C-82 was somewhat under powered due to the (then) available engines....

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• CO

  @ColeClaussen-t3i · 8 months ago

  I think this is the one our middle school teacher showed us when we were talking about the Cold War. Wish we would&apos;ve spent more time learning about the Cold War people don&apos;t fully understand just how much it influenced modern history as we know it.

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  @DonaldWest-w9u4u · 1 year ago

  What would &nbsp;became of the world if it hadn&apos;t been for the United States

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