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Richard Reeves discusses and signs Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift. June 1948 - May 1949
Reeves tells the story of the ordinary Americans who executed the high-stakes Berlin Airlift to bring food to starving Germans and stave off Soviet domination in Europe after World War II. In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II -- pilots, navigators, and mechanics -- 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. Their mission was to save the enemy capital many of them had bombed to rubble only a few years earlier.