C-54 dropping candy during Berlin Airlift, circa 1949. A U.S. Air Force Douglas C-54 Skymaster making a "Little Vittles" candy drop (note the parachutes below the tail of the C-54) on approach to a Berlin airfield. Aircrews dropped candy to children during the Berlin Airlift.

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