By Margot Theis Raven
A actual tale of the Berlin Airlift and the sweet that Dropped from the Sky. lifestyles was once grim in 1948 West Berlin, Germany. Josef Stalin blockaded all flooring routes coming out and in of Berlin to chop off West Berliners from all foodstuff and crucial offers. with no outdoors aid, over 2.2 million humans may die. therefore all started the Berlin Airlift, a humanitarian rescue project that applied British and American airplanes and pilots to fly in wanted offers. As one of many American pilots engaging within the Airlift venture, Lt. Gail S. Halvorsen helped to supply not just nourishment to the kids but additionally gave them a cause to pray for a greater international. From one considerate, beneficiant act got here a lifelong courting among Lt. Gail and the youngsters of Berlin. this can be the real tale of a seven-year-old lady named Mercedes who lived in West Berlin through the Airlift and of the yank who got here to be referred to as the Chocolate Pilot. Artist Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen's evocative paintings...
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Halvorsen. ” Mercedes showed Col. Halvorsen the window where she had watched the planes and showed him the yard below where the white chickens had once lived. Then she tried to tell him how much his gift had meant to her. Col. Halvorsen’s eyes misted over. Oh, yes, he knew! But how could he tell Mercedes the joy that had come to him from two sticks of gum? He’d seen a World War go by, and a Cold War begin, but he’d always found in the children’s eyes the hope for a better tomorrow. No, he couldn’t explain, so he penned a wish for Mercedes on his original letter: Dear Mercedes and family!
Halvorsen softly rubbed his head. His little friend’s sweet hope was as fragile as the eggs and as precious to him as the white chickens were to her. But would he ever find the garden with the chickens? Even with Peter’s map, he couldn’t find his yard by the canal. As October days passed into November, a thick, soupy fog began to blanket Berlin’s sky. Walking home with Mama, Mercedes prayed the pilots would be safe today. She prayed, too, that the fog would lift so the Chocolate Pilot could find her chickens in the yard at last.
We stay in Berlin. Period! President Harry S. Truman June 28, 1948 The Berlin Airlift The Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949 is still one of the greatest humanitarian missions the world has ever known. 2 million people for 15 desperate months. It began three years after WWII had ended, when defeated Germany and its capital, Berlin, were carved into four pieces like a pie by the Allied countries who had conquered Adolf Hitler’s army. Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union (Russia) controlled the eastern sector of Berlin as well as East Germany.