""Candy Bomber" Turns 100 !!" Topic
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 ColCampbell  | 19 Oct 2020 8:06 a.m. PST |
On October 10, Colonel Gail S. Halvorsen, the Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber" turned 100. link Keep going strong Uncle Wiggle Wings. Jim |
| Frederick | 19 Oct 2020 8:50 a.m. PST |
Neat story! Thanks for sharing and hope Colonel Halvorsen has many more good years |
| Extrabio1947 | 19 Oct 2020 9:05 a.m. PST |
Thanks, ColCampbell. We need more stories like that in these turbulent times. |
| DisasterWargamer | 19 Oct 2020 9:06 a.m. PST |
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| 79thPA | 19 Oct 2020 9:07 a.m. PST |
There is a Berlin Airlift display at the National Museum of the USAF. link |
| ReallySameSeneffeAsBefore | 21 Oct 2020 1:46 p.m. PST |
Wonderful story- and a glorious chapter in USAF (and I might add RAF) history. It illustrates that communism is about imposing power on the people while free democracy is about deriving power from the people.
Thankfully the bad guys lost on that occasion. We need to keep remembering how it had to be done back in the day.
Thanks for posting ColCampbell. |
| Bismarck | 22 Oct 2020 8:36 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the post Col. Campbell.
Made me think of a favorite Mad Magazine cartoon when I was a kid. Shows a US plane land near the wall under the eyes of the Russian guards. Large wooden crate marked top secret unloaded.
Once uncrated, out comes the big bad wolf…takes big old chest swelling deep breath…and you can imagine the rest.
Last scene he is hoisted on the shoulders of the troops and civilians and the wall is in shambles.. Kept that issue for years. Loved that cartoon, particularly seeing the Russian troops blown through the air! |
| UshCha | 23 Oct 2020 6:51 a.m. PST |
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plays Ambush Alley at Council of Five Nations.
