The way this is written, one would be thinking that the airplanes flew over Berlin and parachuted the supplies without landing. Once again this is poor reporting and poor editing. The MSM wonders why we don't trust it, well not only are they proven to be biased but they can't report clearly either!
Certainly the airlift did not drop its supplies but landed and offloaded them.“One of the most striking images of the Berlin Airlift is U.S. pilot Gail Halvorsen dropping candy from his plane for the German children. The “candy bomber,” as he became known, symbolized the generous spirit of America,“Second, relations between the conquering allies and the surviving German population were tenuous as a hangover of the scorched earth approach of Hitler and Stalin. The Red Army brutally raped every female person in Berlin, multiple times. And while they were not doing that, the American forces which occupied West Berlin - emphatically including their top officers -were not exactly friendly to German civilians, either. This was so true that when
Halvorson was not only acting on his own initiative, he risked disapproval from his chain of command. But the thing that turned it around was the PR effect it had. The chain of command found out about it from reporters who put the commanders in the place where they found it politic to approve. It was kind of taken out of their hands.Halvorson was sent back to the US to be on some TV shows, and ended up raising big bucks for additional candy. At a certain point they realized that they had so much candy that parachuting it all was not practical - and they decided to make a specific shipment of the candy to Berlin for a huge Christmas party.
- The Candy Bombers:
- The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour