Good morning, Whitewater.
Friday in town will be cloudy with a high of seventy-two. Sunrise is 5:18 and sunset is 20:37, for 15h 19m 17s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous, with 69.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Loading milk on a West Berlin-bound aircraft. Via Wikipedia
On this day in 1948, Americans and others begin transporting vital goods to West Berlin following a Soviet blockade:
The Berlin Blockade (1 April 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies‘ railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutschmark from West Berlin. In response, the Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, a difficult feat given the city’s population.[1][2] Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and the South African Air Force[3]:338 flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing to the Berliners up to 8,893 tons of necessities each day, such as fuel and food.[4] As neither side wanted a war, the Soviets did not disrupt the airlift.[5]
By the spring of 1949 the airlift was clearly succeeding, and by April it was delivering more cargo than had previously been transported into the city by rail. On 12 May 1949, the USSR lifted the blockade of West Berlin. The Berlin Crisis of 1948–1949 served to highlight the competing ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe….
On 24 June 1948 LeMay appointed Brigadier General Joseph Smith, headquarters commandant for USAFE at Camp Lindsey, as the Provisional Task Force Commander of the airlift. Smith had been chief of staff in LeMay’s B-29 command in India during World War II and had no airlift experience. On 25 June 1948 Clay gave the order to launch Operation Vittles. The next day 32 C-47s lifted off for Berlin hauling 80 tons of cargo, including milk, flour, and medicine.
Here’s the last game in this week’s Puzzability series, Colorful Characters:
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This Week’s Game — June 22-26
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Colorful Characters
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Would you like to join our rainbow coalition? For each day this week, we started with the name of a color and formed a new word that’s a type of person that has “consonantcy” with the color—a word with all the same consonants, in the same order, but a different set of vowels, which can appear anywhere in the word. (The letter Y is not used in any words here.) The resulting two-word phrase, with the color first, is described in each day’s clue.
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Dark red leatherneck
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Maroon marine
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What to Submit:
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Submit the two-word phrase (as “Maroon marine” in the example) for your answer.
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Friday, June 26
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