Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot : a true story of the Berlin Airlift and the candy that dropped from the sky /

Raven, Margot Theis,

Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot : a true story of the Berlin Airlift and the candy that dropped from the sky / by Margot Theis Raven ; illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. - Chelsea, Michigan : Sleeping Bear Press, (c)2002. - 48. pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.

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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Halvorsen, Gail S.--Juvenile literature.
Simon, Mercedes--Juvenile literature.
Halvorsen, Gail S.
Simon, Mercedes.


United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command --Biography--Juvenile literature.
United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command --Biography.


Air pilots, Military--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Girls--Germany--Berlin--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Air pilots, Military.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany.

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