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CelestialSea
#3 This shouldn't merit applause. It's what EVERY church is should to do with all their money. Instead most just buy stuff for themselves.
Heelcat70
My parents and I were in Germany when my father got word that there was going to be a blockade. He got me and my mother on a plane out immediately. He was in charge of the ground radar during the airlift.
TheFakeCraigFerguson
I am 900% positive I am bad at life though.
reaper36a
Fucking freedom
killernerd
#2 2019... This has such Milhouse vibes.
Bugguts1957
Need more candy bombers in the world today
sowasvonsowas
Many years ago I knew an old German woman who told me that her First Communion dress was made from handkerchiefs used as parachutes for candy dropped by Hal Halverson and his colleagues.
HamburgerWelper
As many unfortunate youths were torn to shreds in hails of M&Ms and gumballs, the children learned to fear the Candy Bomber. Mothers would tell them “he will come for you next if you show a sweet tooth”. Those who survived his reign of terror grew to be the healthiest generation in German history, with record consumption of vegetables and the lowest cavity rate the country had ever seen.
teardropivyyearofthetiger
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LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
#1 the berlin crisis was one of the rare cases the soviets were being difficult for a reason, they wanted to finally settle the border question and ocupation zones and such but the weasterners simply wouldnt negotiate at all.
Rookie8286
Partly true, but misleading. The Allies weren’t interested in the borders the Soviets wanted to set up because the Allies wanted to return Germany to self-rule and the Russians wanted to carve it into pieces.
DontcallmeRooster
#1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Halvorsen
Filanwizard
Berlin Airlift is probably the greatest logistics effort in aviation history.
Mithi
Absolutely. Always a good laugh when documentations about it bring gems like: "What would you need to fly x tons of coal to Berlin?" "I' sorry, did you say 'coal'?"
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BewareTheIceSpiders
I call bullshit over the targeted candy drop. An unguided parachute at even as low as 1000 ft will drift wildly.
scoutMoonDiver
BewareTheIceSpiders
Have you dropped a lot of small packages by parachute? Cause I did.
BewareTheIceSpiders
Safe rate of descent no more than 20 fps, but really 10 fps to be safe, at 1000 ft thats over a minute and a half of wind drift, even in a small wind that means hundreds if not thousands of feet of drift.
nintyuk
#2 takes a twist when you consider it's from 2019. Getting my life on track, doing group therapy, seeing the doctor face to face and starting a new in person job. I wonder if they still kept on track in to 2020
darthstormer
The Berlin Airlift is such a fascinating logistics operation.
Stargrave3000
Also arguably the greatest good the USAF ever did for the world.
Vergenbuurg
Older couple that were very close friends of my family, the husband was a retired Air Force Colonel who had played a part in the Berlin Airlift. He was also credited with the part of the success of the real-life BAT 21 rescue mission, in terms of an effectively-managed no-fly zone that prevented any major friendly-fire incidents. He was an incredibly humble man and a gentle soul. Animals gravitated to him.
Rookie8286
It’s so cool you knew someone involved with the BAT 21 mission. That story fascinated me when I was growing up.
Wylf
#1 Pilots like him were called "Rosinenbomber" in Germany - literally "Raisin bombers", because raisins were part of the candy they dropped.
HamburgerWelper
Imagine being traumatized as fuck from 5 years of allied air raids and then the bombers come back after the war to drop raisins on you.
Besamel
Better raisins than Hersheys
NachoPete
MushroomFiend
Technically they were cargo aircraft. C-47s, C-46s, and C-54s.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Aw, hush. I would be hauling them home and ask if it's going to be sweet bread or oatmeal cookies (:
HamburgerWelper
The world's second worst Halloween bagstuffer rained misery upon the capitol of the vanquished Reich. "Haven't we suffered enough?!" some cried, as others wailed, "we deserve this! Our crimes are innumerable!" Only the threat of candy corn kept the stricken city from complete social collapse.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Not being USian, I don't know if candy corn is less bad or worse than black licorice.
Rystefn
Worse. Licorice is a flavor that some people like, but most people dislike. Candy corn is garbage that no one actually likes and is only made and sold because of a tradition of hating children on Halloween.