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Berlin airlift: How “candy bombers” saved West Berlin
Learn about the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948–49 and the U.S. and British...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz

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CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge in battle
Battle between the Confederate blockade runner Alabama and the Union's Kearsarge...
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the John G. Johnson Collection
English engraving celebrating the blockade of Louisbourg
An English engraving from 1775 celebrating the blockade of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
battlefields of the American Civil War
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blockade; American Civil War
Wreck of a Confederate blockade runner off Sullivan's Island, near the entrance to...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-cwpb-02973)
Alfred von Tirpitz: unrestricted submarine warfare
Cartoon showing Alfred von Tirpitz's answer to British naval strength: unrestricted...
Image Asset Management/World History Archive/age fotostock
Berlin blockade and airlift
Children watching a U.S. cargo plane landing at Tempelhof Airfield in Berlin, 1948.
Air Force Historical Research Agency
Cuban missile crisis; blockade
The destroyer USS Barry intercepting a missile-carrying Soviet freighter...
© Everett Collection/Shutterstock.com
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