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Airlift and Berlin blockade 1948: candy bombers saved Berlin
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US Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen drops sweets attached to small parachutes for children. dpa. Long-lasting airlift. The Western allies kept the airlift going for an entire year. It is thought to be one of the biggest humanitarian operations ever organised. The Soviet Union ended the blockade on 12 May 1949, though American and British pilots ...
'Candy Bomber' delivered chocolate, hope to Berlin > U.S. Air ...
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Then-1st Lt. Gail Halvorsen, who retired from the Air Force as a colonel in 1974, was one of the American pilots flying around-the-clock ...
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