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A vintage DC-3 'candy bomber' which was involved in the 1948-49 Berlin Airlift and helped save the city from starvation is to appear at the Berlin Air Show.
After World War II the United States and Britain airlifted food and supplies into Russian-blockaded West Berlin. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail S. Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. To lift their spirits, he began dropping chocolate and gum by parachute.
The Berlin Airlift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nHdB1vJNsg
http://www.spiritoffreedom.org/airlift.html
Candy Bomber book
The masterfully told story of the unlikely men who came together to make the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history.
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