Domestic airports near Fort Leavenworth. 22 miles: Kansas City, MO (MCI / KMCI) Kansas City International Airport. 71 miles: Topeka, KS (FOE / KFOE) Forbes Field. 133 miles: Manhattan, KS (MHK / KMHK) Manhattan Regional Airport.nother major airport is Forbes Field (FOE / KFOE), which has domestic flights from Topeka, Kansas and is 71 miles from Fort Leavenworth.
An East German border policeman hands a flower to West Berliners on the 1989 weekend when the wall separating two parts of the city started to fall. Many people died while defying rules against crossing from East Berlin to West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. (Michael Probst/Reuters)
The Berlin Wall became the symbol of the Cold War and the division of East from West until its destruction in the fall of 1989. Timeline 1948, June: Berlin airlift began. 1949, May: Berlin airlift ended.1961, 3-5 August: Politburo decided to close the border between East and West Berlin.elated Events Berlin Air Lift Germany 1945 Nikita Khrushchev John F. Kennedy 1989 Berlin Wall Comes Down. 1  Berlin Wall, a personal view of Berlin and the effect of the Berlin wall on the city and its inhabitants by Chris De Witt (contains photographs).