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Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot : a true stroy of the Berlin airlift and the candy that dropped from the sky / by Margot Theis Raven ; illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. |
| Authors: | Raven, Margot Theis |
| Call number: | j943.155 RAV |
| Publisher: | Chelsea, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, c2002. |
| Publication date: | c2002. |
| Subject: |
Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography.
Girls -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography. Juvenile literature. Halvorsen, Gail S. Simon, Mercedes Berlin (Germany) -- History -- Blockade, 1948-1949 United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command -- Biography. |
| Title: | Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot : a true stroy of the Berlin airlift and the candy that dropped from the sky / by Margot Theis Raven ; illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. |
| Physical description: | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| ISBN: | 1585360694 |
| LCCN: | 2002001887 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|867947 |
| Bib No.: | 867947 |
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