WIESBADEN, Germany – When millions of Germans living in West Berlin were cut off from the rest of the world by a Soviet Union blockade in 1948 it kicked off the Berlin Airlift - the largest ...

BERLIN — Berliners on Sunday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the day the Soviets lifted their blockade strangling West Berlin in the post-World War II years with a big party at the former Tempelhof ...

WIESBADEN, Germany — Thousands of Americans and Germans gathered at Clay Kaserne over the weekend as the Army and the state of Hessen commemorated one of the largest and most significant humanitarian ...

WIESBADEN, Germany — The U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden is remembering retired Col. Gail S. Halvorsen, known as the Candy Bomber, on his passing Feb. 16 at the age of 101. Halvorsen is well known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on June 24, 1948, as word that the Soviet Union had cut off power and other essential services ...

To children living in the rubble of post-war Germany, it was candy from heaven. Some saw it as a sign that somebody in America cared about them. To Colonel Gail “Hal” Halvorsen, who became known ...