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The Berlin Airlift was the event you're asking about. Crate loads of food and supplies were shipped and dropped to West Berlin so that the people would not die of (literal) separation from East Berlin.

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How often did an airplane land in east Berlin with supplies during this time?

During the Berlin Blockade from June 1948 to May 1949, airplanes landed in West Berlin approximately every three minutes, delivering essential supplies to the city's residents. The Berlin Airlift involved around 200,000 flights, transporting over 2.3 million tons of supplies, including food, coal, and medical supplies. This operation was crucial in sustaining the population of West Berlin during the Soviet blockade.


Food and supplies were delivered to people into west Berlin during the?

Berlin Airlift


How did president Truman save west Berlin?

The Russians wanted the western sectors so they wouldn't allow food and supplies into Berlin. The airlift provided food and supplies for West Berlin for nearly a year.


How was the US military able to get food and supplies into west Berlin?

they flew it in to west Berlin


Why did Truman order planes to airlift supplies to West Berlin?

Because the soviet union had blocked all traffic, electricity, and food to west Berlin hoping for them to surrender so that they would become a communist country. We airlifted supplies there so they wouldn't become communists, since we helped them they wanted to become democratic, just like us


Who started to provide food and other supplies to the western side of Berlin?

The US did during the Berlin Air-Lift .


Why did the Allies fly food and supplies into Germany?

Because if the allies had no food and supplies they would have to retreat.


What happened during the Berlin aircraft?

Right near the end of the war with Germany, the Russian army slipped into part of Berlin, thinking that this would be a real prize for them. They were thwarted by the Allies, so they simply surrounded Berlin to prevent food and supplies from getting to its people. So the Allies, largely the US, started the Berlin airlift to fly food and supplies in to Berlin's people.


Did Operation Air Lift supply W Berlin with food?

no because of the sorrounding German forces near west Berlin they were unable to get the needed amount of supplies in to west Berlin


Berlin airlift definition?

A 327-day operation in which the U.S. and Britain planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after sonets blockaded the city.


What does distribution do for Tesco?

well the deliver food supplies to tesco and heelp take things out from tesco


How did the west respond to the blockade?

The West responded to the blockade by transporting supplies including food to West Berlin.