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The British Garrison Berlin 1945 - 1994: nowhere to go ... a pictorial historiography of the British Military occupation / presence in Berlin. Berlin: Vergangenheitsverlag . ISBN 978-3-86408-068-5. OCLC 978161722
The Berlin Blockade (24 April 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
Late April 1945, towards the end of the Second World War in Europe, the airfield was occupied by the advancing Red Army.Following the division of Berlin into four sectors, Soviet forces relinquished part of the airfield and access roads, the so-called Seeburger Zipfel to the British after the Potsdam Conference in exchange for West-Staaken on 30 August 1945.
British Army Chieftain tanks of the Berlin armoured squadron, taking part in the Allied Forces Day parade in June 1989. The Berlin Infantry Brigade was formed in October 1953 out of the force called "Area Troops Berlin" and consisted of some 3,100 men in three infantry battalions, an armoured squadron, and a number of support units.
The British Garrison Berlin 1945 - 1994: nowhere to go ... a pictorial historiography of the British Military occupation / presence in Berlin. Berlin: Vergangenheitsverlag . ISBN 978-3-86408-068-5. OCLC 978161722. Marsden, Roy (1998). "Operation 'Schooner/Nylon': RAF Flying in the Berlin Control Zone". Intelligence and National Security.
The British along with the three other allied powers also had a separate occupation zone within the capital Berlin, this despite being deep inside the Soviet occupation area. The British sector (165.5 km 2), consisted of the boroughs of Tiergarten, Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf and Spandau.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster dropping candy during Berlin Airlift, c. 1948/49. Raisin Bombers (German: Rosinenbomber) was the colloquial name given by Berliners to the Western Allied (American and British) transport aircraft which brought in supplies by airlift to West Berlin during the Soviet Berlin Blockade in 1948/1949.
Royal Air Force Germany, commonly known as RAF Germany, and abbreviated RAFG, was a command of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and part of British Forces Germany (BFG). It consisted of units located in Germany, initially in what was known as West Germany as part of the British Air Forces of Occupation (BAFO) following the Second World War, and later as part of the RAF's commitment to the defence of ...
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