“Sure. Forgot the citation: “The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour,” by Andrei Cherny.”
Thank you. I was going to search for the original documentation. You saved me the time.
I’m reading it now — I highly recommend it. I was born in 1951, so too young to remember it myself, but it is an amazing story. I had no idea the stand-off in Berlin instigated by the Russians in 1948 put us on the brink of WW III. The beginning of the Cold War had east and west jockeying for position and the Soviets were definitely in the lead, having gobbled up all of Eastern and Central Europe in the three short years after the war.
I’m reading the book now; about half-way through, and just read that passage a couple hours ago. It stuck in my mind.