Berlin Air Lift

Ohio History



Candy Drop

After "entering" Berlin through the checkpoint in my last post (here), we walked through a hallway lined with life-size scenes from the city and era. This was my favorite scene - German children climbing up to get a parachute from an airlift drop snagged in a tree. More likely than not, it contained candy! The Berlin Airlift dropped lots of candy for the city's children, as well as daily groceries, medical supplies, and even newspapers. But more than half of the total tonnage brought in was coal. Supplies were shipped to the European coast on freighters, then carried by train and truck to the airports to be loaded on planes. I read that they even brought a baby camel named Clarence to Berlin on one of the flights!