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Contents 1 172 2 still needed 3 Japan 4 How many airplanes crashed? 5 Agreements for access 6 The Hump 7 Berlin Food Drop ? 8 NPOV violation?

[edit] 172

Sorry, I didn't see you were in the middle of making changes. Kingturtle 04:38, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

That's alright. I was more my fault, I think. Also, sorry for perhaps making changes that might've accidentally reverted some of your changes during the edit conflict. 172 04:47, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] still needed

Still missing from this article is how the Blockade took place. Who was put in charge of its oversight. How did it work? How was it enforced? When was it thought up? Kingturtle 04:44, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

This article still needs a lot of work. I haven't gotten around to expanding upon this part yet. 172 04:47, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

Is that all you are missing? Correct dates, references would be nice.

[edit] Japan

(Stalin assumed that Japan and Germany could menace the Soviet Union once again by the 1960s.)

Do you have references? Japan did not menace the SU during WWII, at least openly. It was the SU who invaded the Sakhalins after the atom bomb.

Which was it? 2,245,315 tons or 2,325,809 tons of supplies? Both figures are given in the same paragraph. User:Karn March 6 2005

this has been changes to 2,500,000 and 2,350,000, but someone might want to make these the same if the know which one is correctsay1988 22:22, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

Changed (along with flight numbers) to 2,326,406 from the Air Force's Berlin Airlift anniversary page [1] Mfv2 21:30, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] How many airplanes crashed?

Does anyone know how many airplanes crashed and how many servicemen died?

I've just seen the german movie "Die Luftbrücke - Nur der Himmel war frei" about the Berlin Airlift. Thanks to all our friends out there for making this possible! To answer part of your question: The movie states that 39 british soldiers, 31 americans and 8 germans died during the airlift. I assume this is accurate but don't take it for granted. Bluehorn 23:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Why did they crash? The article gives no explanation for this. Were they just routine aviation accidents? Were any ever fired on by Soviet forces? Other causes? This should be addressed in the article. Pimlottc 20:46, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Agreements for access

http://homepages.stmartin.edu/Fac_Staff/rlangill/PLS%20310/Berlin%201948-%20Isaac.htm says that there were formal agreements about free access to Berlin, but the article states otherwise. Which is correct? FireWorks 08:38, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Hump

I moved a bunch of details about Albert Wedemeyer into his article, since who he was airlifting supplies to in 1944 (etc) is not very relevant to the Berlin airlift. FireWorks 08:38, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Berlin Food Drop ?

Who calls it the Berlin Food Drop ? The article needs improvement in this respect - the Berlin Airlift is the more usual term, I believe. In any event: (i) it wasn't just food - a lot of other items, such as coal was airlifted; and (ii) it wasn't a "drop" in the sense of an airdrop, the flights landed before unloading their goods.--jrleighton 01:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV violation?

It says "it was a terrible occasion", isn't that POV? 125.236.44.44 00:27, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

some twat has seriously messed with this page. can someone sort this?