the book I am reading is called the candy bomber and it is by micheal O Tunnell. It is set in the time after world war 2. The main character of the book is a Air Force soldier whose mission is too send supply drops to the civilians of Germany. Germany is in ruins because of all the bombs that were dropped on them and now the people are in deep poverty. They rely on food coming from USA to survive. Lt. Halvorsen noticed that all of the children were very appreciative for little things and would share equally when he gave a group of the German kids two pieces of gum.
He wanted to make the kids happy in a very tragic environment hey we're in so he decided to start shipping candy to them in his air craft. Candy and chocolate was very valuable in that country and was comparable to the price of gold. He dropped loads of candy attached to small parachutes to float down to the children of Germany and it looked as if it was raining candy from heaven. At first he was doing it without confirmation so it was illegal but his boss said everyone loved what he had down do his candy shipments were approved.
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