This episode from the History Channel series focuses on military air transport and the crucial role it has historically played. As this program shows, perhaps the most well-known triumph of military air transport occurred at the height of the Cold War, when the famous "Berlin Airlift" by the United States kept the isolated, yet free, territory of West Berlin from being starved into submission to the Soviet Union. This installment of the series also provides the history of air transport from World War II to the Gulf War, ...
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This episode from the History Channel series focuses on military air transport and the crucial role it has historically played. As this program shows, perhaps the most well-known triumph of military air transport occurred at the height of the Cold War, when the famous "Berlin Airlift" by the United States kept the isolated, yet free, territory of West Berlin from being starved into submission to the Soviet Union. This installment of the series also provides the history of air transport from World War II to the Gulf War, including a tour of the various transport aircraft and interviews with veteran pilots and crews. Steve Blackburn, Rovi
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