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What year did the Berlin Airlift begin?
1948
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What was Lt. Halvorsen doing when he encountered the group of children?
Getting ready to tour Berlin.
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What was the brand of gum that was donated?
What is Paris?
100
What classroom newspaper encouraged students to send handkerchiefs?
What is Weekly Reader?
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What was the name of the little girl who wrote to Lt. Halvorsen and asked him to drop a parachute near her house with the chickens?
What is Mercedes?
200
What countries was Germany divided among?
Soviet Union and the Allies (US, Britain, and France)
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What did he give the children?
Two sticks of gum
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What did they use when they ran out of handkerchiefs?
What is shirttails?
200
How many rolls of lifesavers did the company originally donate?
What is 4,000?
200
How many anniversaries of the Berlin airlift did Lt. Halverson attend?
What is 3? (20th, 40th and 50th)
300
What was the name the US gave to the Berlin Airlift?
What is "Operation Little Vittles"
300
How would the children know it was him when he dropped the candy?
Wiggle his wings
300
What were the two nicknames for Lt. Halvorsen?
What is "Chocolate Pilot" and "Uncle Wiggly Wings"?
300
Where was Operation Little Vittles center of operations?
What is Chicopee, Massachusetts?
300
What award did Lt. Halvorsen receive in 1948?
What is the Cheney Award?
400
Name 2 of the airports where the planes landed in West Germany.
What is Tegel, Gatow, Tempelhof
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How many packages were dropped the first time?
3
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Why didn't Lt. Halvorsen drop candy at the polio hospital?
It was outside approved flight paths
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Who invited Lt. Halverson to lunch?
What is John Swersey?
400
When did the Berlin Airlift end?
What is September 30 1949?
500
Where was Lt. Gail Halvorsen stationed before he came to Germany?
South Africa
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Who were the three men on the original candy drop?
What is Lt. Halvorsen, Sergeant Elkins, Captain Pickering
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How did the colonel find out about the candy drops?
The general called to congratulate him after a reporter wrote an article.
500
How many pounds of candy was put in a jail cell and guarded before Christmas in West Berlin?
What is 6,500 pounds?
500
What were the names of the people who took over when Lt. Halverson's tour of duty was over?
Who are Captain Caskey and Captain Williams?