Download Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift - June 1948-May 1949 AudioBook Free

The Second World Warfare have been over for three years when pilots, navigators, and air traffic controllers all over America were recalled to active duty to save Berlin. They were there within days and weeks, traveling tired planes filled up with food, coal, medication, and mail. Many got bombed the destination to rubble in 1944 and 1945. Now they and the English airmen were bringing it survival. Sketching on hundreds of interviews in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, bestselling creator Richard Reeves says the stories of these civilian airmen, the successors to Stephen Ambrose's "Civilian Military," ordinary young boys called to remarkable jobs.Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin got purchased Berlin blockaded, gambling that the People in the usa, the Uk, and the France would abandon the city. Many of Leader Truman's advisers wanted to retreat; others wanted to risk war with the USSR. Truman purchased the Berlin Airlift, neither retreat nor confrontation. It ended only when Western world Germany was proven by the three powers and NATO was created. The Soviets did the support down. Led by Generals Lucius Clay and Curtis LeMay, the first fight in the Freezing War was gained. The teenagers came up home again, some of them trying to keep in mind where they had left their automobiles.

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