Talk:Berlin Blockade

Not a GA yet

This article still has uncited paras and citation needed tags. It therefore will not pass GAN. I suggest it is withdrawn until it is ready. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:02, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Spurious Lovett Credit

Robert Lovett, who is listed above Clay and Robertson but otherwise unmentioned in the article, had nothing to do with the airlift. According to Clay biographer Jean Edward Smith, Lovett was part of an anti-Clay cabal at State, consisting of himself, Marshall and Kennan, who tried to replace Clay with Bedell Smith, in January 1948, but were blocked by Congress. On 24 June Clay was firmly in charge. The credit Lovett gets is spurious. Unless there's objection, I move to delete it. J M Rice (talk) 05:49, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

>>>Tons?

Throughout the article, amounts of goods delivered by the Airlift are expressed in "tons". What are those? Are they short tons (2000 lbs./907.18474 kg)? Are they long tons (2240 lbs./1016.0469088 kg)? Are they metric tons (2204.622621848776 lbs./1000 kg)? That needs to be made clear, and whichever tons they are, they need to be converted to the other ones. Kelisi (talk) 06:10, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

"Change faciiated to facilitated"

Paragraph 9, line 1 of 'Black Friday" has a misspelling. 2601:280:5F00:5AC0:8DF0:6D4:7422:C823 (talk) 05:08, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Done (sort of -- "facilitating" seemed to work better), with a few other immediately-apparent fixes. Whole section probably needs a pass. ShadyNorthAmericanIPs (talk) 12:13, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Not a total blockade?

In:

• Pearson, Joseph (4 November 2025). "Playing dirty used to be the west's preserve. Now we're letting Moscow beat us at our own game". The Guardian.

Pearson, a historian at the Barenboim-Said Akademie and New York University in Berlin, claims to have discovered evidence that the need for the airlift was exaggerated as a propaganda exercise. He also has a book out on the topic (which I have not seen). Is this a new thesis? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:44, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

I just read this article in my newsfeed and turned to Wikipedia to see what it said. I was surprised that this was the only mention. I would have thought either the article needs a serious revision or the article needs a rebuttal. C.cohen (talk) 22:01, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

I think that the quotation from the Guardian is at odds with the rest of the article, and I'm of the opinion that it's WP:UNDUE. Thoughts? EnronEvolved^{My Talk Page} 19:31, 31 July 2026 (UTC)