“The Outsider” - Decades before ‘Flags of our Fathers’ this 1961 film follows Ira Hayes from basic training, to Iwo Jima, and the years following the war. Gain an appreciation of Ira’s demise as survivor’s guilt is thrust into the hero’s spotlight.
Hidden Gem: One of the best accounts of just how happenstance the second flag raising was.
Berlin Airlift for Crimea?
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Maybe too late at this stage to be effective…
Any thoughts?
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I don’t think the situations are comparable. The Berlin Airlift was intended to bring essential supplies for day-to-day living into a small, well-defined enclave that was entirely under the control of the western Allies and that was being blockaded by the surrounding Russians. The Crimea is a large peninsula that is undergoing a messy territorial dispute, with fragmented areas of control, and whose problems have little or nothing to do with logistics.
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