Fwiw, I Uncle Jimmy was one of the original CANDY-bombers, who dropped miniature parachutes (made of handkerchiefs/twine & loaded with candy) for the children of Berlin.
He said once, “I don’t whose idea that it was BUT it was a GOODIE, for sure”.
Yours, TMN78247
Welcome to the Canteen, TMN78247...keep watching as there are 3 more parts, including the candy-bombers, to our Berlin Airlift “story” over the next few weeks.
Our thanks to your Uncle Jimmy for his part in the airlift.
See my post 56 with a link and excerpt about the candy bombers. I seem to recall some famous aviator was a child in West Berlin during the airlift. He would look as the planes went over, and vowed that some day he would live in America and be a pilot.