"Operation Candy Drop" Berlin Airlift Reenactment

[DiggerWW2]

Gang, This year the Reading WW2 Weekend will be reenacting "Operation Candy Drop" from the Berlin Airlift.
Retired USAF Col Gail Halvorsen (the guy who created it) will be flying in the Museum's C-54 & throwing candy parachutes out of the plane. Sounds interesting. Here's more info:

http://www.maam.org/wwii/ww2_berlin.htm

http://www.talkingproud.us/HistoryBerli ... omber.html

http://www.konnections.com/airlift/candy.htm

http://www.hill.af.mil/library/factshee ... sp?id=5979

Also, I'll be buzzing the crowd in one of the B-17's & droping a few of My fully loaded Footlockers & Frozen Turkeys out of the bomb bay:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v674/ ... OCKER5.jpg

Should be a hit, much like the infamous WKRP in Cincinnati "Operation Turkey Drop" incident:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZByndN_ffyw

... Digger

[frankspeaks]

As god is my witness I thought turkeys could fly....


Note to self: Go by Fry's and get a new keyboard....I'll never get all coffee out of this one.

[Jase]

This should be a neat addition. On a personal note, Col Halvorsen is one of the nicest people on the face of the planet.

[Airlift48]

And, just to clarify....

The C-54, called "Spirit of Freedom", is not owned by "the museum". It is owned by the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation of NJ.

Please do come out and visit us, if not only to meet Gail, but to visit our aircraft as well.

See you all at RDG.

[tom d. friedman]

what a refreshingly cool & fun re-enactment!!!

[mustangdriver]

I have a shirt that says that on it.

As god is my witness I thought turkeys could fly....


Note to self: Go by Fry's and get a new keyboard....I'll never get all coffee out of this one.