[Kathy in Alaska]

I suspect you are right....I don’t think any positive history is being taught anymore.

It is such a great story about the ingenuity of our military.

[ConorMacNessa]

The Candy Bomber, which I believe will come up soon, tells us everything we need to know about the American Soldier.

A place in the lower circles of Hell awaits the media tools who now trash our Troops at every opportunity.

"If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape
and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy."

[Western Phil]

An aside to the airlift:

When my mother passed away in late 1989, I found among her effects a box labelled “Germany Letters”. Included was a series of 26 letters from a woman living in Dresden. The first was addressed to my father’s mother, who had passed away in 1944. Apparently my grandmother had helped the Dresden lady between the war years. The letter describes their dire straits and mentions that the Soviets are not allowing 10 kg relief packages. The following letters acknowledge receipt of packages sent by my parents and sometimes other relatives. There does not seem to be a break in the sequence coinciding with the time of the Berlin Airlift, thus leading me to conclude that “Uncle Joe” only applied the blockade to interchanges related to Berlin.
The last letter (in 1952) was quite lengthy and requested an end to the relief packages. She managed to sneak it out the West for mailing, bypassing the censors.

Thank you for posting the very interesting history of the airlift.