TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mandin,Christy
TI  - Bittersweet: based on the true tale of the Berlin Candy Bombers 
SN  - 9781665960588 :
AV  - DD881 .M36 2025 
U1  - 943/.155 23
PY  - 2025///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Margaret K. McElderry Books
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Europe
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Military & Wars
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century
KW  - Berlin (Germany)
KW  - History
KW  - Blockade, 1948-1949
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1945-1953
KW  - Germany
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 3-8; Brodart; P-3; Brodart
N2  - How far can a small kindness reach? How much of a difference can two sticks of gum make? Colonel Gail Halvorsen was a pilot in the United States Air Force delivering supplies to West Berlin when it was blockaded by the Soviets. One day he approached children gathered outside the airport with two leftover sticks of gum. One day, he approached children gathered outside the airport with two leftover sticks of gum. After sharing the gum through the fence, he watched in surprise as they passed the wrappers around so everyone could sniff the minty smell. Inspired by the children's kindness and sympathetic to the way blockades were cutting off their access to simple pleasures like sweets, Halvorsen began airdropping candy, using his own rations and wiggling his wings to alert the kids below that it was time for treats. When a package of chocolates literally dropped on a reporter's head, news quickly spread of "Uncle Wiggly Wings" or "the Berlin Candy Bomber." Soon, Halvorsen's Operation Little Vittles-born of one man's courage to be kind-grew to include other pilots and donations from American families and ended up dropping over twenty tons of candy to the children of war-torn Berlin.
ER  -