Talk:Berlin Blockade

Difference between blockade and airlift
I am pretty sure that the Berlin Airlift and the Berlin Blockade are two completely separate things. There isn't a page for the Berlin Airlift and the info on this page does not relate to the blockade, only the airlift. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hardtanker (talk • contribs) 22:43, 8 May 2018 (UTC)


 * The two topics are VERY closely related, as there would have been absolutely no need for an airlift if there hadn't been a blockade.
 * The obvious being said, I agree that this article, while covering the airlift in a quite good fashion, is highly deficient in covering the blockade, its reasons, effects (including the counter-blockade mentioned in at least one documentary I've viewed on the matter), and the process of the ending of it, where Stalin sought to end it in a manner that might save a little of his (by then very tarnished) reputation.
 * Signature: Autokefal Dialytiker (talk) 10:37, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Decision for an airlift: Confusion over units
In "Decision for an airlift" the article cites "a minimum daily ration of 1,990 kilocalories (July 1948)" but I don't see how this can be right, and suspect the intended meaning is 1,990 *calories* (per person per day). I will gladly correct it if there's no objection. Victimofleisure (talk) 19:54, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Kilocalories is exactly correct. The problem is that too many people use the unit "calories" where it should be "kilocalories", and this leads many people (apparently you included) to think what you just wrote - which is just plainly wrong.
 * Happily, I can see that the article (at least at present) is still written with the correct version of the unit. (Another point is that the calorie is an imprecise unit, better replaced by Joules, but obviously not here, as this is in a historical context, as a quote...)
 * My signature: Autokefal Dialytiker (talk) 18:51, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

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 I suggest it is withdrawn until it is ready.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)