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Berlin Airlift
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Berlin, Germany--Miniature parachutes can be seen
drooping from Lt. Gail
Halvorsen's C-54 as he brings the plane in for a landing at
Templehof Air Force Base
on a "Vittles"
flight from Frankfurt. Lt.
Halvorsen has been dropping
the parachutes with candy and gum attached on every
flight into Berlin. He has
dubbed his project
"Operation Little Vittles".
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Record Group 342 -G 24-67935 AC
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A small group typical of the
hundreds of young and old Berliners who gathered around Tempelhof Air Force Base to watch
C-54s and C-47s
of Operation - Vittles. Groups such as these are the
benefactors of "Operation
Little Vittles" initiated by
1st Lt. Gail S. Halvorsen, of
Stockton, California in which he drops candy tied to
handkerchief parachutes.
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Record Group 342 -G 25-68071 AC
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mcoleman1@CompuServe.com
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