Berlin, Germany-The Berlin airlift brings supplies to the blockaded city of 2 1/2 million West Berliners. Children eagerly wait for plane.
Banner headlines of Britain's daily newspapers Oct. 23 announcing President Kennedy's blockade of Cuba. U.S. Planes and ships, armed with orders to...
The Gunboat Brown, part of the Mississippi Fleet active in the Southern blockade, 1863. The Union sought to strangle the South by denying them the...
Berlin, Germany- British driver and vehicle detained at Soviet-American boundary checkpoint in Berlin.
German workers at Tempelhof Airdrome are shown unloading flour from a US Air Force C-47 into a waiting truck, during Operation Vittles, by which the...
Copy of a wood engraving showing the capture of the Confederate blockade runner Arthur Middleton, with the USS Vandalia at left, and the USS Roanoke...
Illustration, entitled 'How the Air Lift Works,' shows the the routes of US Air Force planes as they depart bases to deliver supplies to the...
Union and Confederate fortifications on James, Sullivan, Block and Morris islands at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, S.C. In July 1863, Union...
Berlin, Germany- Stumm police, on orders from the allied kommandatura, check through vehicles for industrial equipment at sector boundaries here. The...
Berliners Hail Blockade Lifting. Berlin: Jubilant residents of Berlin wave to an American airlift plane approaching Tempelhof Airfield for a landing,...
Poster hail Kennedy's blockade action. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil: Within a few hours after the President Kennedy announced the military quarantine of...
Paris headlines tell the story of the U.S. Naval blockade of Cuba, early October 23rd. President Kennedy announced the blockade late October 22nd,...
Photo shows leaders of the Jewish Community unloading a C-54 Skymaster which brought a special shipment of Passover food for the Jews of the...
New York: The Sumter running the blockade of Pass a' l' Outre, by the enemy's Ship Brooklyn, on the 30th of June, 1861.
Banner headlines of Britain's daily newspapers on October 23 announcing President Kennedy's blockade of Cuba, London, England, October 23, 1962.
Confederate Rams attack Blockading Fleet at Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina, January 31, 1863. From an issue of Frank Leslie's...
Soap powder is stockpiled in a warehouse in West Berlin in case of a second blockade by the Soviet Union, 9th August 1961. Overland routes to Berlin...
Children, silhouetted amid the ruins of Berlin, look to the skies as an RAF aircraft passes overhead, during the Soviet blockade of the city....
Palestinian children study to the light of a lantern in Gaza City on November 28, 2008. Gaza's sole power plant provides between 25 and 30 percent of...
Protesters attend a rally in Stepanakert, capital of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, on December 25, 2022. - Thousands...
Cartoon map illustrating Gen. Winfield Scott's plan to crush the Confederacy, economically. It is sometimes called the "Anaconda plan." , Cartoon
Two ships in Cherbourg Harbor and in the English Channel. Made by the British for the Confederacy and captained by Raphael Semmes, the "Alabama" was...
Combined Union force initiated operations to close Mobile Bay to blockade running. Some Union forces landed on Dauphin Island and laid siege to Fort...
Union Admiral Farragut in August 1864 as well as that in March 1865, when his fleet provided naval support to land forces under Frederick Steele and...
Regional view of Charleston Harbor showing the city of Charleston on the Ashley and Cooper rivers, Castle Pinckney on Shute's Folly Island,...
New York, New York: The Coast Guard cutter Penobscot Bay, August 22, in New York Harbor, was one of the vessels involved in the blockade of the port...
Placard carrying Muscovites yell and shout as they demonstrate near the U.S. Embassy in protest against the U.S. Blockade of Cuba. Some 400 Soviet...
Security blockade at the Transamerica Pyramid parking lot in the Financial District neighborhood of San Francisco, California, September 26, 2016. .
Steam frigate USS Pensacola prepares to depart Alexandria and join Flag Officer David G Farragut's Gulf Coast Blockading Squadron, Alexandria,...
Berlin, Germany- Soviet authorities in Berlin, who stay awake nights dreaming up new, petty restrictions on international business, were given one of...
View of the am staw displaced persons camp at Hamburg, where some of the Jewish refugees taken from the blockade running "Exodus 1947" will be...
The blockade to relief aid for the hurricane swept area of South Florida, Snake Creek, where both highway and railroad bridges were undermined by...
David Drummond , left-wing leader of the national Maritime Union who was recently suspended as Port Agent, speaks at a press conference at NMU...
First After Blockade Lifting. Helmstedt: Crowd cheers as the first Allied freight truck departs for Berlin after barrier was lifted at...
Berlin, Germany: American C-47 transport planes discharge their vital food cargos at Templehof Airdrome in Berlin, after the Russians blockaded the...
Washington: Police used tear gas May 5th to force University of Maryland war protesters to abandon a human blockade on busy U.S. Route 1 in nearby...
West Berlin's governing Mayor Dr. Otto Suhr, Senate Officials and correspondents assembled at the US sector, Soviet Zonal border point, leading to...
The population of the US sector enclave Steinstucken welcomes West Berlin's governing Mayor Dr. Otto Suhr at the checkpoint after Suhr failed to...
Danger passed, police allow people to go their way after opening blockades at 34th St. And 5th Avenue. Crowds move slowly, gazing upward for a...
This painting is by an unknown American artist, depicting a Confederate blockade runner and a Union man-of-war.
Queens, New York: 'Move? Just Make Me!' That harried officer was none too anxious to tangle with wrathful Mrs. Fay Gold, but had to obey his...
Switzerland guards its borders to protect its neutrality against the hostilities between France and Germany. | Location: Border of Switzerland.
Truckers confront riot-equipped State Highway police as National Guard tow trucks moved in to break up blockade near here 12/6. Drivers were...
Women and children run from the road as the compound burns in the background on the northern edge of the capital. Communist gunners tightened the...
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon called for greater use of air and naval power against military targets in North Vietnam and an insistence that...
This sidewheel steamships was built in Liverpool, England for the purpose of running the Federal blockade of the Confederate coast in 1864.
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon called for greater use of air and naval power against military targets in North Vietnam and an insistence that...
Atlantic City, New Jersey- New Jersey State Police put up a blockade to keep out members of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party from Convention...
The blockade of Berlin has made Germans do dome thinking for themselves. They've come up with a new product, Ersatz coal, which provides six times as...
Philadelphia: The first member of the radical back to nature group, Merle Africa, surrenders to police in Philadelphia, 5/4. After the city and MOVE...
Berlin, Germany: An April shower in Germany's Capital City produced this striking photo of what was once the most fashionable district of blockaded...
Grouped atop some of the ruins of war-battered Berlin, German adults and children watch as an American plane flies overhead during an airlift,...