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You gotta love the story of the candy bomber
American Thinker ^ | 25 Jun, 2023 | Silvio Canto, Jr.

Posted on 06/25/2023 4:46:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 06/25/2023 4:46:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Governor DeSantis implemented an education mandate requiring that the history of communism be taught in all public schools in Florida.


2 posted on 06/25/2023 4:46:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Eventually, the planes started to drop more than food and heating oil. At some point, the pilots saw kids and returned with something for them. Those men came to be known as "the candy bombers." They dropped candy for the children in their supply bags

In Germany, have gone down in history as the "Rosinen-Bomber" (the "raisin bombers").

Regards,

3 posted on 06/25/2023 4:54:25 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Remember when Bill Clinton Mentioned Gail Halvorson in a speech and told what a great hero SHE was?


4 posted on 06/25/2023 4:55:11 AM PDT by cyclotic
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These days they’d be dropping lithium batteries and solar panels.


5 posted on 06/25/2023 5:08:30 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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The guy who initially organized the Berlin Airlift was none other than Old Iron Pants, Curtis Lemay. Took him two days.


6 posted on 06/25/2023 5:24:41 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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45 minutes of instruction every November.

Color me underwhelmed.


7 posted on 06/25/2023 5:38:09 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: MtnClimber; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; Carriage Hill; Lockbox; nascarnation; Squantos; ...

My Dad was a Flight Engineer on a C-54 during the Berlin Airlift, including the the Candy Bombing runs. Other than that He wouldn’t talk much about WWII.


8 posted on 06/25/2023 5:44:51 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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Colonel Gail S. Halvorsen


9 posted on 06/25/2023 6:17:09 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I read this book last year. Highly recommend.
10 posted on 06/25/2023 7:05:24 AM PDT by DFG
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"Remember when Bill Clinton Mentioned Gail Halvorson in a speech and told what a great hero SHE was?"

Thank you for mentioning that. I've been searching the internet for audio or video of that event. Not a trace.

Salute to: "Uncle Wiggly Wings".


11 posted on 06/25/2023 7:42:22 AM PDT by guest7
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I read this book last year. Highly recommended.

Let me add my recommendation; I've read Candy Bombers several times. If you're ever driving or flying in the Florida Keys, stop at the EAA Air Museum at Marathon airport. We have a comprehensive display of photos and printed material about the Berlin Airlift.

We have had visitors from Germany who remember the Airlift, and have seen it in school history classes.

12 posted on 06/25/2023 8:58:54 AM PDT by Ace's Dad (76)
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I was stationed at Tempelhof 3/73 to 3/75. Lt. Col. Halvorsen was the base commander when I got there and I marched in his change of command ceremony when he left in 74 (February as I recall). Great memories.


13 posted on 06/25/2023 9:31:51 AM PDT by 109ACS (Wanted Dead or Alive: Schrödinger's Cat)
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Finally, on May 12, 1949, the Soviets realized the blockade was futile and lifted their barricades. The airlift continued for several more months, however, as a precaution in case the Soviets changed their minds.


What is the moral of the story?


14 posted on 06/25/2023 9:36:13 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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the restored Doglass C-54, is parked near my hangar in Elizabeth City, N.C.. It was Coal, not Oil. This particular C-54 was used in the Berlin Airlift. As the modern group of caretakers were going through the aircraft, coal dust was found was found inside the belly areas underneath the floor boards. The aircraft logs & maintenance records also indicate it was used in those vital life saving missions.


comment at the article.


15 posted on 06/25/2023 9:37:32 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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... arrested in 1961 and released in 1975. Never had a trial, and forget about anybody reading him his Miranda rights. They don't do that in communist countries.

A wet dream for our 'intelligence' thugs and goons... and Merrick Garland's filth.

16 posted on 06/25/2023 9:39:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black dem thugs, white liberal 'elites', & sexual weirdos - democrat's team against the rest of us)
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All the photos of my dad in Korea were of him surrounded by smiling chocolate-covered faces kids.

That’s pretty much what he answered when I asked what he did in the war and my grandma sent him boxes of candy constantly., thinking he was eating it all.

Come to find out years later, what he really did was drive ordnance trucks to the front lines.

He saw things and did things but all he talked about was how much the little kids loved to get candy every time his delivery from grandma arrived.

I miss him so much, especially now.


17 posted on 06/25/2023 1:25:59 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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history


18 posted on 06/25/2023 3:57:17 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Weren’t they also called “Der Schokolade flieger(sp?).


19 posted on 06/25/2023 4:21:16 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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Weren’t they also called “Der Schokolade flieger(sp?).

Look at the writing on the hull of the airplane in post #9. It's partially obscured, but obviously reads, "Rosinen-Bomber."

In more than four decades in German, always talking with older folks about their war experiences, I've never encountered any expression other than "Rosinen-Bomber." (However, I'll confess that, lately, there's almost no one left with clear memories of that era.)

My son's schoolbook likewise mentions "Rosinen-Bomber."

Me-thinks moderns can't imagine how vital simple foodstuffs like multi-purpose raisins would have been back then, and in contrast how impractical chocolate would have been (like airlifting caviar into a famine area), so in their minds they substitute something fancier.

The expression "Rosinen-Bomber" - while not exactly a play on words - is also reminiscent of the familiar expression "Korinthen-Kacker" (which has an entirely different meaning).

Regards,

20 posted on 06/25/2023 11:52:08 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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