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<p><br>In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II&#8212;pilots, navigators, and mechanics&#8212;who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight hours to report to local military bases. The president, Harry S. Truman, was recalling them to active duty to try to save the desperate people of the western sectors of Berlin, the enemy capital many of them had bombed to rubble only three years before. <P>Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had ordered a blockade of the city, isolating the people of West Berlin, using hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers to close off all land and water access to the city. He was gambling that he could drive out the small detachments of American, British, and French occupation troops, because their only option was to stay and watch Berliners starve&#8212;or retaliate by starting World War III. The situation was impossible, Truman was told by his national security advisers, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His answer&#58; "We stay in Berlin. Period." That was when the phones started ringing and local police be

Author

Reeves, Richard, 1936-

Publisher

New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781416541202

Subjects

History, Humanities