At the beginning of the airlift, the conventional wisdom on both the Allied and Soviet sides was that Berlin could not be supplied indefinitely by air, that it would only be a matter of time before ...

Airlift to America, by Tom Shachtman, is published by St. Martin's. Of all the African leaders of the 1960s independence era, none was more appealing than Tom Mboya. When he visited American colleges, ...

UC-12W Huron Provides Essential Airlift Capabilities For VIPs, Cargo. Like “Rudy” Ruettiger of the 1975 Notre Dame football team, the Marine Corps UC-12W aircraft is respected ...

Last year, I settled into a hammock stretched across the cargo compartment of a C-17A Globemaster III after departing Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. I previously piloted this airframe, the Air Force’s ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. The US airlift fleet for moving troops, weapons, and critical supplies around the world is shrinking and growing older — ...

This summer marked the 60th anniversary of the Allies' airlift of food and medicine into West Berlin in East Germany, an attempt to avert a potential crisis from a blockade by the Soviet Union. The ...