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Originally Posted by Skybird
"Rosinenbomber." Still not forgotten over here, believe it or not.  |
In Berlin perhaps. If I had not been interested in aviation and history I would probably have never heard of the Berlin air lift.
BTW I was lucky enough to see Mr. Halvorsen in person on the ILA in Berlin about a decade ago. I was there with my then virtual squadron and he walked past us in a flight suit, army air force hat and a 360° smile. I asked one of our members who was from Berlin whether he had seen that funny looking guy and he said "Yep, that's Gail Halvorsen" as if anybody had to know who that guy is. It took me several seconds to remember where I had heard that name before and then remembered his story from an old book about the airlift that I had read some years before by pure chance. I really felt privileged after that that I had met that guy even though we just walked past one another.
