trackrebel
05-13-2009, 07:48 AM
Today 60-years-ago the famous Berlin Airlift finally ended....
The supply of food, water and heating material and fuel of the Western part of Berlin was blocked by the Soviets, starting in June 1948....the Western Allies, especially the US and the British started to supply West-Berlin with those supplies thru the air....hundrets of planes flew back and forth every day for almost a year from the Western part of Germany to West Berlin to keep the citizens of West-Berlin alive.
In Germany the people started to call those planes the "Rosinen Bomber" "raisin bombers", because the soldiers would often put chocolates and other sweets out of the planes windows for the children to catch.....no need to say that those kids would always have a soft spot in their heart for the US and British soldiers.
Thereīs a story about one girl who never caught any chocolate....so she just wrote a letter to West-Germany to the "Schokoladen Onkel"....."Chocolate Uncle".....she wrote to him that if he happens to fly over a certain part of West-Berlin....he should watch out for a certain house with a small garden that had white chickens in it...and throw a little packet of chocolate to her!.......she was 7-10-old back then.....and the moving thing is....the letter arrived at the hands of a US Air Force Pilot...who knew that he couldnīt make it to throw the chocolate exactly into the garden......so he wrote her a letter...explaining that to her...including a few goodies in it......I found that to be a very sweet story.
So again...thank You to all the allies to helping Germany back on its feet and start all over....Without that help...I do not know how our country would look now...and all the help came after that terrible war my country started and those terribles murders that happened.
Thank You my American, British and French friends.
The supply of food, water and heating material and fuel of the Western part of Berlin was blocked by the Soviets, starting in June 1948....the Western Allies, especially the US and the British started to supply West-Berlin with those supplies thru the air....hundrets of planes flew back and forth every day for almost a year from the Western part of Germany to West Berlin to keep the citizens of West-Berlin alive.
In Germany the people started to call those planes the "Rosinen Bomber" "raisin bombers", because the soldiers would often put chocolates and other sweets out of the planes windows for the children to catch.....no need to say that those kids would always have a soft spot in their heart for the US and British soldiers.
Thereīs a story about one girl who never caught any chocolate....so she just wrote a letter to West-Germany to the "Schokoladen Onkel"....."Chocolate Uncle".....she wrote to him that if he happens to fly over a certain part of West-Berlin....he should watch out for a certain house with a small garden that had white chickens in it...and throw a little packet of chocolate to her!.......she was 7-10-old back then.....and the moving thing is....the letter arrived at the hands of a US Air Force Pilot...who knew that he couldnīt make it to throw the chocolate exactly into the garden......so he wrote her a letter...explaining that to her...including a few goodies in it......I found that to be a very sweet story.
So again...thank You to all the allies to helping Germany back on its feet and start all over....Without that help...I do not know how our country would look now...and all the help came after that terrible war my country started and those terribles murders that happened.
Thank You my American, British and French friends.