Picture This Candy Bombers Remembered
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Monday marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Airlift, which saw the Western allies provide 2.3 million tons of supplies to the 2.5 million citizens of the blockaded West Berlin. Here, some veterans of the almost 280,000 airlift missions pose in front of a DC-3 "Rosinenbomber" (Candy Bomber) aircraft at Berlin's Schönefeld Airport. Tempelhof, the airport where the Airlift was originally conducted, closed late last year.
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