Long Island played a key role in a storied chapter at the beginning of the Cold War known as the Berlin Airlift. June 26 marked the 75th anniversary of the start of the pivotal campaign during which ...

Emedie “John” Mazzella remembers the moment, more than 75 years ago, when duty to country catalyzed into a personal calling. World War II had officially ended. It was the eve of the Berlin Blockade ...

Somewhere in the Kremlin, the Communists appear to keep a Machiavellian UNIVAC with buttons, lights and levers that can bring into operation any one of 10,000 devices of skulduggery. Press the button ...

Tension had characterized the Western Allies and Soviet relationship in Berlin almost from the Second World War's end, and when the Russians took decisive moves to drive the Allies out in June 1948, ...