General Lucius D. Clay was the first commander, but turned controls over to Major General William H. Tunner of the Military Air Transport Service on 22 July 1948. Tunner assumed command at Wiesbaden on 28 July 1948 and by mid August, two-thirds of all C-54 crews were on their way to Germany. Turn around time was reduced to 30 minutes per aircraft with a landing goal of one plane per minute, 24 hours per day. By March of 1949 the airlift was bringing in 196,223 tons of material per month.
The U.S.S.R. did not have a president. The leader of the country was the General Secretary of the Communist Party, which was Joseph Stalin at the time of the Berlin Airlift.
You Are There - 1953 Berlin Airlift 4-22 was released on: USA: 25 March 1956
Not so much NATO's role in the Berlin Airlift, but the Berlin Airlift in the role of the forming of NATO is more important.
To stop the British, French and the USA from gaining goods.
The American Experience - 1988 The Berlin Airlift 19-7 was released on: USA: 29 January 2007
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The Berlin Airlift.
The population of West Berlin at the time of the blockade and airlift (1948-49) was about 2 million.
The Berlin Airlift
No. The Soviets instituted the Berlin blockade, so the allies initiated the Berlin airlift to get supplies to civilians inside the blockaded city.
The Berlin Airlift proved to the USSR the US would not let Berlin be cut off. The USSR wanted to starve Berlin into joining them.
No the Berlin airlift ended 1990.