Gail Halvorsen is a former American pilot of C-47s and C-54s during the Berlin airlift ("Operation Vittles") 1948–1949.

Curtis Emerson LeMay was a general in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of independent candidate George C. Wallace in 1968. He is credited with designing and implementing an effective systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. After the war, he headed the Berlin airlift, then reorganized the Strategic Air Command into an effective means of conducting nuclear war.

General Lucius Dubignon Clay (April 23 1897 - April 16 1978) was an American general and military governor best known for his administration of Germany immediately after World War II. Deputy to General Eisenhower, 1945; deputy military governor, Germany (U.S.) 1946; commander in chief, U.S. Forces in Europe and military governor, U.S. Zone, Germany, 1947-49; retired 1949. Clay is considered the "father" of the Berlin Airlift (1948-49)

Lt. General William H. Tunner, Jr. (July 14 1906 - April 6 1983) was a remarkably efficient American general, and dubbed by the Military Channel as one of the legends of air power. He had a remarkable tendency to create order, discipline and organization out of chaos as demonstrated in each occasion he took over a malfunctioning operation in place-The Hump of Burma, the near loss of Korea, …

Rick Berlin (born Richard Gustave Kinscherf III, in Sioux City, Iowa in 1945) is a Boston-based singer-songwriter, formerly the frontman of Orchestra Luna, Luna, Berlin Airlift, Rick Berlin: The Movie, and The Shelley Winters Project. A Yale graduate, Berlin has been writing and performing a distinctly theatrical form of rock and roll since the early 1970s. He achieved much of his early success with Orchestra Luna, whose eponymous debut was released on Epic Records in 1974.

Bob Clarke, born in Scarborough in 1964 is an English archaeologist and Historian. Upon leaving school Clarke joined the Royal Air Force at the height of the Cold War in 1981. He served at RAF Leeming, Lyneham, Ascension Island and St Athan during a nine year term. After leaving the RAF he travelled around Europe with his wife, Sarah; this left him with an interest in the Cold War. This interest was demonstrated in 2005 when his first major book, …

Roy Chadwick, CBE, (April 30 1893 - August 23 1947) was an aircraft designer for Avro. Born at Marsh Hall Farm, Farnworth near Widnes, son of the mechanical engineer Charles Chadwick, he was the Chief Designer for the Avro Company and was responsible for practically all of their aeroplane designs. He is famous in particular for designing the Avro Lancaster bomber, its follow-up Avro Lincoln and preliminary designs of the Avro Vulcan V bomber.

Ralph Hammond Innes (July 15, 1914 - June 10, 1998) was an English author who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children's and travel books. He was born in Horsham, Sussex and educated at Cranbrook School in Kent. He left in 1931 to work as a journalist, initially with the "Financial Times" (at the time called the "Financial News"). "The Doppelganger", his first novel, was published in 1937. In WWII he served in the Royal Artillery, …

Albert Coady Wedemeyer (9 July, 1897 - 17 December, 1989) was an American soldier, who served primarily in the Second World War in Asia. His most notable command was the China theater in the South-East Asia Theatre. During the Cold War, Wedemeyer was a chief supporter of the Berlin Airlift.

John A. "Shorty" Powers (1923 -1980) USAF Lt. Col. was a well-known public affairs officer for NASA in the early 1960s during Project Mercury. He was also known as the "Eighth Astronaut" and the "Voice of Mission Control." After enlisting in the Army Air Corps in 1942, Powers became a C-47 pilot with the 349th Troop Carrier Wing. Powers left active service in January 1947, but was recalled to active duty in December 1948 and flew as part of the Berlin Airlift, …

Greg Flynn is a novelist whose debut book "The Berlin Cross" (published by Random House Australia) received numerous positive reviews when released in December 2005. With the Berlin Airlift as a dramatic backdrop, Flynn's novel features a Royal Military Police officer and a New York private eye who are forced to team up to find the missing Cross of Jesus Christ.

Lieutenant General Sir Edric Montague Bastyan KCMG, KCVO, KBE, CB (1903-1980) was Governor of South Australia from 4 April 1961 until 1 June 1968 then Governor of Tasmania from 2 December 1968 until 30 November 1973. During his military career, senior posts held by him included head of logistics during the Berlin airlift (1946-48) and Commander of British Forces, Hong Kong from 1957 to 1960.

Peter Dignan was born on March 6 1955 in Gibraltar, to a former Berlin airlift pilot. His father later enetered the diplomatic corps, and as a result, Dignan spent much time outside of his parents' native New Zealand. He subsequently relocated to Auckland, New Zealand, where he attended and boarded at the prestigious King's College, becoming a house prefect. Dignan, a competent rower, represented New Zealand in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, …