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Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
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Gail Halvorsen
US Air Force officer (1920–2022)
Colonel Gail Seymour Halvorsen was a senior officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He rose to fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949, for which he was nicknamed "Berlin Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings".Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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USSR blockade of Berlin, 1948–1949
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Name given by Berliners to the Western Allied transport aircraft
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