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After World War II, Germany was occupied by American, British, French and Russian military forces. The German city of Berlin, which was completely inside the Soviet sector, was similarly divided.

in 1948, the Soviet forces closed off land routes through Soviet-controlled East Germany in an attempt to starve out the American/British/French controlled areas. To bring food and supplies to West Berlin through the Soviet-controlled areas, the U.S. Air Force began the "Berlin Airlift". You can read articles about it at the link below.

One American pilot Lt. Gail Halvorsen, seeing the German children watching his aircraft, began dropping candy from his cockpit window. Other pilots joined suit.

As of November 29, 2008, Col. Halvorsen (retired) is still flying and occasionally re-enacting his candy bombing.

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