Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot : : a True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy That Dropped From the sky
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The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.
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PUBLISHED
Chelsea, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, c2002.
Year Published: 2002
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 850
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1585360694 :
SUBJECTS
Halvorsen, Gail S.
Simon, Mercedes.
United States. -- Military Airlift Command -- Biography.
Air pilots, Military -- Biography.
Girls -- Berlin -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany.
Berlin (Germany) -- History -- Blockade, 1948-1949.
Germany -- History -- 1945-1955.