One Month Into the
Berlin Blockade

"The firm of Uncle Sam and John Bull flying grocers, kept the Western Allies in the Battle for Berlin last week... If the peace continues, the U.S. British estimated, by mid-July there will be enough food in Berlin's stockpile to feed the 2 million Germans in western sectors of the capital until September 1... Supplying fuel and coal was another problem..."

The article is accompanied by one cartoon from THE NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE.

Click here to read a 1956 summary of the Berlin Blockade.