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Candy Bomber
On June 24, 1948, my dad was a 22 year old Airman wrapping Hershey bars in handkerchiefs in the back of a gooney bird. From '44-'46, he served in the Army seeing action in the ETO. After switching over to the Air Force, he retired in '66.
He had a box full of fruit salad but he was most proud and moved by this:
He spent almost 3 months in the back of a C-47 loading and unloading cargo and dropping bundles of candy to eagerly awaiting kids. He said some of those faces never left him.
July 4th is me mum's birthday and dad's was June 26th so every year we think of what he was doing on his birthday so many years ago.
Happy birthday dad, happy birthday mum and happy birthday America.
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06-28-2017, 07:09 PM
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Rusty that's a great story! 
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06-28-2017, 07:47 PM
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Awsom and Great Story .
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06-28-2017, 07:52 PM
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I live near the Wright Brothers Memorial on the Outer Banks, and the Candy Bomber still flies over most years as part of the commemoration of the first powered flight.
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06-28-2017, 10:34 PM
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Is this about the Berlin Airlift?
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06-28-2017, 11:06 PM
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Rusty, pick your favorite.....Cheers, Mate!!!
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06-28-2017, 11:19 PM
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Is this about the Berlin Airlift?
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Yes, a touching part of that very moving campaign. One of my favorite memories of the early post war years.
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06-28-2017, 11:51 PM
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My stepfather's favorite wartime memory was watching a hungry young girl and her mother on Christmas eve dreaming about being able to buy enough kippers for their Christmas dinner. He always described the look in the face of that little girl when he stepped out of the shop with a pile of kippers for them. He said that nothing could have made that child happier.
Then of course, he looked at us not eating our dinners (probably liver and kraut) and gave us the look.
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