[IGOTMINE]

I’m going tomorrow.

[SunTzuWu]

“It displayed a U.S. dedication to a stable and prosperous rule of law and international system. It demonstrated truly the ingenuity of America’s military to create sovereign options … in response to a changing national security environment,” said Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne, speaking at the opening ceremonies of the Joint Service Open House at Andrews Air Force Base, Md

Easy there Secretary Wynne. I think you just offended some democrats.

[Selmore]

we are still that country

[PA Engineer]

The American Experience series covered this well on PBS. I especially remember the pilots dropping Hershey bars and later with the help of American school children who made them little parachutes as school projects.

[VOA]

I got to hear the author of “The Candy Bombers” on radio a few weeks
ago. He said that for a fair number of children, the chocolate that
was dropped was the first taste of chocolate.

Another factoid I recall from some other book was about the ferocious
efficiency and speed of the house-fraus that off-loaded the planes.
I can’t recall the average turnaround time, but do recall one pilot
saying that once the German ladies had gotten a load of coal out
of the plane, you couldn’t find one speck on the floor of the cargo bay.

The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift
and America’s Finest Hour
by Andrei Cherny
http://www.amazon.com/Candy-Bombers-Untold-Airlift-Americas/dp/0399154965/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211081684&sr=1-8

other books on The Berlin Airlift
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-0036981-1580667?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=%22berlin%22+%22airlift%22&x=5&y=24

[RayChuang88]

The experience of the Berlin Airlift and the needs of the Korean War a few years later was the reason why Lockheed was chosen to build the second-most famous military air transport plane in history (after the C-47 conversion of the DC-3): the C-130 Hercules. Indeed, the Antonov An-12 pretty much duplicated what the C-130 pioneered.