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Picture of the Day | 29.06.2008

Candy Bombing

Parachutes carrying chocolate fly over the US Army airfield in Wiesbaden during the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Berlin Airlift in Wiesbaden, central Germany, on Sunday, June 29, 2008. During the 1948-49 airlift, American and British planes flew in essential supplies to a West Berlin cut off by a Soviet blockade. Some pilots, nicknamed Bildunterschrift:

Parachutes carrying chocolate fly over the US Army airfield in Wiesbaden during the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Berlin Airlift in Wiesbaden, central Germany, on Sunday, June 29, 2008. During the 1948-49 airlift, American and British planes flew in essential supplies to a West Berlin cut off by a Soviet blockade. Some pilots, nicknamed "candy bombers," also dropped small parachutes with chocolate and gum to eager Berlin children.

 

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