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[@StuartistStudio1964]

I had a German teacher who was a little girl living in Berlin at the time. They loved the Americans and British. She remembered the candy bombers. She loved it!

[@10millimeterpeter]

That’s so cool, thank you for sharing!!!

[@richdemanowski2575]

My mother, too, lived through the post-war era in Berlin, and had heart-warming stories of the "Rosinenbomber" - the "Raisin bombers".

[@brentlabeau]

The Candy bomber , who started it, live in Utah, Gail Halvorsen, you can Google him. He live to be a 101 years of age.

[@richdemanowski2575]

@@brentlabeau I had the honor of meeting him in person in my youth. We were introduced by Les Larsen, who examined me for my pilot license in 1987

[@commonsense571]

God bless them. Sweet little children. Always remember the right stuff🌸 shouldn’t ever have to cope with such things.

[@jdemd1977]

When the Brits and the Americans work together, there's nothing we can't accomplish! 🇺🇸💙🇬🇧

[@cloverite]

Except America has always screwed us over. They are not friends to the UK.

[@GrantWaller.-hf6jn]

That's the reason we lost Vietnam

[@johncostello6006]

​@@GrantWaller.-hf6jnsoooo... you know nothing about bureaucratic red tape?

[@GrantWaller.-hf6jn]

Keep transferring someone to the next department that red tape

[@GrantWaller.-hf6jn]

Bureaucracy can be usefull if you know how to play the system.

[@courtneyraymer6586]

I was a preschooler during the time of the Berlin Airlift, but my teachers and my family had vivid memories which they shared. During the fifties,families discussed things around the dinner table.Those discussions were often carried back the next day to school. With the input of parents, teachers and students a deeper understanding of history.There was also, in the US, a children’s newspaper called The Weekly Reader. It was published for first through eighth grades at the appropriate reading level for each grade. I remember reading about the end of the Korean War, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the reelection of President Eisenhower and many other significant historical events of the 1950’s. I find it so disheartening that we’re into our third generation who are ignorant of so much of our history. President Truman famously said, “The only thing you don’t know is the history you haven’t read yet.” The same President who administered The Berlin Airlift.

[@dianecomly6132]

So heartwarming, truly. Makes you proud to be British, or for me, an American.

[@jimmyb2655]

Has anybody ever made this epic story into a movie? This is Dunkirk level epic.

[@nancyjanzen5676]

Yeah there is a movie with Montgomery Clift. The units of aircraft brought in were kept together. So the planes from Hawaii and Akaska and the mainland had their own air traffic controllers brought with them.

[@alaxbird4954]

7:02 "How is the even possible?" America thats how

[@nneichan9353]

all us old people were taught about it.

[@GrantWaller.-hf6jn]

I didn't learn this in school I found out on my own. Back in the late 70s

[@Krokmaniak]

I had this in school and I'm born in late 90's

[@GrantWaller.-hf6jn]

​@@Krokmaniakokay that makes sense better education system back then I'm in my late 50s. You got to hear about on the radio in news reports or news reels.

[@reba1030]

Yay!! I’m so glad you did this one! It’s my all time favorite one that Nic has done. I didn’t learn about it in school either. It’s absolutely amazing and needs to be talked about

[@placebo5466]

Hearing stories like this as an American make me wish we still had this type of foreign policy.

[@juliahines3617]

I’ll never forget the day the “wall” came down in Berlin. I credit Ronald Reagan with that feat.

[@bobdole7697]

I LEARNED ABOUT THIS DECADES AGO AND THE STORY IS FASCINATING.

[@jona.874]

At the start the USAF also had the 4-engined C-54 (which carried about 1 1/2 C-47s worth of cargo.

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

I learned about this in elementary school sometime around the 5th grade. The candy drop was such a big deal that this pilot started doing this every year as long as he lived at least once a year and I think it was on time around Easter. They dropped coats and all kinds of clothing and baby needs and blankets on top of coal and tons and tons and tons of food... YESS!!! PEOPLE WERE LEAVING EAST GERMANY LIKE CRAZY BECAUSE THEY COULD DO SO EASILY AND WHEN EAST GERMANY ONLY HAD SOMETHING LIKE 18 MILLION PEOPLE THAT'S WHEN THE SOVIETS PUT UP THE BERLIN WALL SO THAT NOBODY FROM EAST BERLIN COULD GET INTO WEST BERLIN BECAUSE BERLIN WAS SEPARATED INTO A CAPITALIST PART AND COMMUNIST SIDE AS WELL AND THEN THE CAPITALISTS SIDE OF BERLIN WAS SEPARATED ABOUT 75 MILES UNTIL YOU GET TO WEST GERMANY. & So essentially West Berlin was just a little slice of capitalist territory in the middle of what was otherwise communist East Germany

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

Yeah, I actually remember being taught this as a kid... of course, I was home-schooled, so I don't know if it was ever mentioned in public schools (major "Press X to Doubt" moment, however). Still, I'm pretty sure it wasn't explained to me in this way. 😂

[@camillep3631]

@@ThinGibbons no, not really, not in the US

[@Stacey9707]

My co-worker's father-in-law was one of those pilots.

[@christinetracy4]

I never heard of that either, that was amazing !

[@charliebrown7004]

The begin of an everlasting friendship

[@cynthiaa2644]

Leon Uris wrote a great book about this called "Armageddon."

[@mikesakas]

You've heard about it. There's a film clip of JFK where hes says "Ich Bin ein Berliner.." it is a glossed over event..two sentences in a history book.

[@bevinboulder5039]

It helped that Berlin had 3 or 4 airports available.

[@vladyvhv9579]

Rules on dealing with the USA: 1: Don't F*** with our boats. 2: Don't tell us we can't do something.

[@GrumpyGenXGramps]

As someone that grew up during the Cold Wat I can’t believe that the younger generations have NO clue about it and especially the whole East and West Berlin and the Berlin Wall shitshow

[@GrantWaller.-hf6jn]

This is why the young generation is like what is wrong with communism. Or the saying rather dead then red.

[@williamshepherd1531]

That's also how the food trucks get started. Because the pilots were taking too long to eat. William s

[@patrickwalsh741]

in the 70,s we learned this in middle school why they stopped teaching the origins of the cold war and cuban missle crises.

[@IngramZero]

Makes me sad this might no longer be taught in schools. This can be considered the grandfather of American Military humanitarian aid. I don't think this gets covered but the US Military is involved in humanitarian aid around the world. One of the reasons that I am upset the Gator fleets keep shrinking as this was one of the things they could do since a fleet was able to show up to any shoreline in 48 hours already fully equipped and able to bring water, food, medicine, and if need security.

[@michaelkrone6728]

I served 2 yrs at R..A.F. Bentwaters so i know how great the English people can be.

[@traceurs619]

The only thing that sucks is now, with how much trash they’re putting in our candy, we can no longer have a candy bomber that won’t do harm to those poor children… what a miracle moment, that part in time.

[@tonyaosborne6881]

It's shocking AF what kids are NOT being taught today.

[@GrantWaller.-hf6jn]

For more USA muscle industry watch historiography channel title the ship that won the war. He gives alot of number comparison of freighters before WW2 and the ships built during the war.

[@nunyabiznasspunk]

Did the Americans build that plane specifically for that? Not exactly. You see, Japan was like, "let's bomb an island... Hawaii" A few days later, Japan: "I fear all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant with a terrible resolve". From that day to this day, we, the Americans, have never looked back. Really shouldn't have touched our boats.

[@randyisaksson3301]

This was taught to me in the 8th grade

[@GaiceShelton]

That's AMERICA

[@mindyrolston3915]

It blows my mind the UK school system does not teach history you should have known about this when you were in high school

[@alexandersarojz9222]

Music list dude? Your playlist is straight dope!!

[@claudiazakutnry1650]

Lewis Honey, I can't believe that you don't know about this. The Berlin Wall separated the East from the West. You should research this it was a fascinating time filled with amazing stories

[@TonyTabor-x2c]

Most young people don't know what the world was like during the Cold War. It was us vs. Them.

[@KSwapTheWorld69]

You have heard about it in the last ww2 story that The Fat Electrician did 🤷🏽

[@flesheater5712]

I think It was something like this. 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

[@noahp3191]

we sent warm coke a cola over the wall to get east Germany hooked so when they could come over to the west they got met with ice cold coke cola and happily paid for it

[@mikem2778]

Damn, how much did those people eat?!?!

[@dking1836]

Remember, just because on a good day you set a record, on bad days you lost aircrafts and their loads or just fewer aircraft,. So on good days you load up warehouses OR haul more coal for the winter, etc. It was not all food, Anything that broke down had to have replacement parts also flown in. Operations like this have priorities, and on really good days, lower priority items finally arrived. Early on, it was really difficult to just get food delivered, but you had to have coal to kept the electricity on, and to keep warm. Bet the first few weeks it was nearly all food.

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

Yo bro!! You gotta watch that movie called "Battleship" since FE has been showing clips from it. 😎👍

[@marsianer4842]

Read. That's how to learn.

[@JohnW-yv6yp]

Me hearing about America and Britain doing this, remembering France owned a piece of West Berlin. WTF did the French do in all this?

[@dking1836]

France was broke and trying to rebuild their own cities. Just like the Brits... oh wait...

[@gryphonosiris2577]

The "Candy bomber" is a massive flex on top of an already massive flex, as it showed that not only could we do the impossible, but on top of that it was a huge humanitarian gesture. It showed that we weren't just getting basic supplies of beans, bacon and bread in, but providing chocolate for children for free. The simple spark of joy that you see in the face of a child when you give them a bar of chocolate, particularly to one who has only known the bombed out ruins of their city is worth more than gold, diamonds, or any currency.

[@TylerFromTraining]

My dad’s uncle was involved in the planning of this! The amount of logistical bullshittery that the U.S. military can achieve is hilarious. My grandad got to have ice cream in the middle of the pacific front during WWII. Why? Cause America could. 😂

[@ninjabearpress2574]

Then I hope you've seen The Fat Electrician's video on the ice cream ships.

[@Doubie.]

Well they had to keep you granddad happy and they took his rum ration away during probation and never gave it back

[@TylerFromTraining]

@@ninjabearpress2574 I have! Good video for sure

[@TylerFromTraining]

@@Doubie. lol he was also stationed at Coco Solo in Panama. I don’t think he had trouble finding rum down there on his liberty pass.

[@gryphonosiris2577]

@@ninjabearpress2574 The power of comfort foods for moral is a powerful thing. Ice Cream certainly is an extreme flex, for sure, but even something as simple as hot chow, fresh bread, and a simple bar of chocolate does wonders for improving and maintain a soldier's moral. If you get a chance, look up WWII US Army field kitchens. Those things helped win the war as much as the infantry man did.

[@kevincomer2101]

I remember when my girls had to do a report on WWII and were totally lost on how to write it. So I worked it out to have them talk to the "old neighbor " accross the street not knowing what to expect. They went for three days he told them all about the war. They were amazed and he was no longer the old man accross the street but their friend. Thank you Hal (RIP) and to all our Vets for your service. ❤

[@TatiannaTampa]

My grandfather was a part of the Airlift! 😊🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸

[@flesheater5712]

💪💪💪💪

[@Reason..or..treason-vk6cz]

😊💜😎

[@MC_chicken1924]

Your grandfather was a god damn legend

[@burnslikeice9994]

We learned that the Berlin Airlift happened in school, but my teacher didn't really go into details. Just said that the US flew in food when the Soviets blocked off the city. I wish we'd spent more time on it 'cause it truly is an awe-inspiring event. Very much a "Challenge Accepted" moment in history.

[@GrumpyGenXGramps]

Teachers nowadays ARE communists and don’t want to teach anything GOOD about the U.S. if they don’t have to!

[@scotthill1600]

Just ab everything we learned in school needed at least a week more on each subject / piece of history. They didn’t cover ANYTHING well enough but hey they introduced me to a lot of topics & gave me the basics, now In my early 20’s am learning it all myself. College didn’t really teach me any history either, except I took a great American history class in college, professor was a badass, had the KKK come & threaten him & he just makes fun of them in class lmao. That’s tough idc what anybody says

[@mindyrolston3915]

​@@scotthill1600you going to tell me next that the Holocaust never happened

[@Darkshizumaru]

​@scotthill1600 that's what people should be doing, not acting scared of those clowns, just mock the wicked. School teachers do the best they can, I think instead of trips to boring places they should have been giving us field trips to retired vets and heard stories first hand from the men and women who lived it. I don't think you can appreciate a museum till it's contents have the ability to touch your heart. Meeting people who lived it while we were kids when possible would have been better.

[@angeladpsp1]

​@@Darkshizumaru Absolutely Correct 🥰💯💯💯 I didn't learn nothing in Highschool from 1983 to 1987 (I graduated Jr High School in the 9th grade and cut out the whole 10th grade and had a BLAST but then I went back and graduated Highschool) because all the Teachers were Hippies and Stoned 😂😢 I had an Economic's Teacher that went to every water fountain and had a name for each one, then my Music Teacher was named Mr. Stone and that's what he was STONED ALL THE TIME 😂 AND BEST OF ALL MY SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER WAS AN A**HOLE AND WAS SOOOOOOOO BORING THAT ONE DAY I WAS DAYDREAMING SO HE CAME OVER TO ME AND TOOK THE HISTORY BOOK AND SLAMMED IT ON MY HANDS SO I GOT UP TOOK MY BOOK AND SLAMMED HIS BACK AND WALKED OUT AS THE KIDS WERE LAUGHING AT HIM 😅 he never reported me cause he was the one who was Abusive To Me First and WAS Afraid I Was Going To Tell On Him!!! I never went back and I was surprised that he passed me 😆😳🤪😉 On top of that I had his WIFE AS MY ART TEACHER and I don't mean to BRAG but since I was young I drew all the time and I would use Charcoal drawing from Animals, Landscapes, Lighthouses, etc., so it was the end of Highschool Term and we had a final to take a wooden stick and carve a Bird on this Black Wax (like that drawing pad made from wax and you can erase it with that plastic sheet) that was Big and you couldn't screw up cause it didn't have the plastic sheet to erase it, so all my friends in the class were AMAZED because I made a Night Scene of the Bird Sitting on a Branch of a Tree, there were leaves, a trunk with a hollow that had a hole in it, the background had stars in different sizes and on the top right corner was the moon that was casting the moonlight shining down on the Bird and everything else with GREAT DETAILS ON EVERYTHING FROM THE FEATHERS, HIS EYE WITH A GLISTEN AS THE REST OF HIS RIGHT SIDE BODY AS WELL A THE LEAVES, ETC HAVING THE CASTING FROM THE MOONLIGHT, because I understood Contrast and Shading from when I turned 10 years old buying or going to the library and reading and practicing constantly, so at first she was very nice to me and really appreciated my artwork and then when I handed in my Bird she had a different attitude because her husband definitely told her probably I hit him but he didn't hit me, a couple of days later she gives back everyones Final Bird Project Back EXCEPT FOR ME SAYING THAT SHE CAN'T FIND IT BUT I GOT A 100 ON IT, I LOOKED INTO HER EYES AND KNEW SHE WAS LYING AND MY FRIENDS SAID TO ME SHE'S LYING AND I WAS SOOOOOOOO UPSET AND 😡 😢 SO CLASS TERM WAS OVER AND WHEN EVERYONE LEFT I STOLE ALL OF THE ART SUPPLIES AND TRIED TO FIND MY BIRD IN HER DRAWERS BUT IT WAS EMPTY. THAT WAS THE FIRST AND LAST TIME I EVER STOLE ANYTHING FOR I WAS HURTING VERY MUCH AS I PUT A LOT OF HARDWORK INTO THAT ARTWORK I MADE 😪😪😪AND I DON'T FEEL GUILTY OR REGRET FOR WHAT I DID 🥹🥰😉

[@kellypatterson8506]

We need High School history teachers like the Fat Electrician, imagine how many kids would take a interest in history:) the best teachers entertain while they teach

[@Nara.Shikamaru]

I was blessed enough to have every single one of my history and social studies teachers be this great. I wish others got the same chance.

[@kellypatterson8506]

@Nara.Shikamaru my best teacher was chemistry/physical science teacher, he looked and acted very similar to Dr.Brown (Christopher Lloyd) from the movie "Back to the Future" trilogy.

[@Nara.Shikamaru]

@@kellypatterson8506 I had a teacher that had the entire class split into groups and put together a presentation for each of the fronts in the world wars and each specific unit type. It was sick as hell.

[@Froggy.175]

There are rumors going around that he is working on his degree to be able to do just that :) super awesome if true

[@sirshotty7689]

What people don’t often talk about when it comes to the Berlin Airlift is its impact on commercial flight and air traffic control procedures that’s used to this day. The reason we have international airports that have hundreds of commercial flights coming and going each day without interfering with each other is because of the manuals written for the Berlin Airlift.

[@anlydaly5726]

The CANDY BOMBER 🍬 is my favorite part of this story. Just a random act of kindness that just spiraled into becoming one of the most memorable parts of the biggest humanitarian effort in history ... Just ... legendary.

[@markpukey8]

That is "the American Spirit" at it's best. We don't always live up to our own ideals, but when we do... "Hey, let's ALL pitch in to give those kids some candy!" and we get the US military, the candy manufacturers AND average kids pitching in some pennies to offset the cost. And there are A LOT of German kids who grew up to remember this and later came to power in Germany. Don't underestimate the power of their memory of this random kindness when their lives really sucked.

[@coffeetime1707]

I completely agree. Then all the candy factories and kids saving to help the other. Gaw this was such a touching story and I never heard of it. Until today.

[@sarahbritt1234]

It's pretty wild that we learn more history from Fat Electrician than we do from school

[@L3WGReacts]

1000% 😂

[@favorsweetly]

Facts

[@MrYabber]

@@ThinGibbonsThey weren’t teaching this in middle school 😂😂

[@benjaminlieb2139]

​@@ThinGibbonslearned a lot in school, mentioned but not fully told!

[@UncleUncleRj]

@@ThinGibbons I'm glad you were taught this in school - but dude, the Cold War ended over 30 years ago

[@damonbryan7232]

Makes it even more amazing. While America and U.K. are sending all those supplies in. America is also helping supply Japan, Philippines and China.

[@corneliussnow8215]

Ah man, the Berlin Airlift is such a fascinating part of history. I remember in my high school, my US History teacher decided to devote a few days worth of class teaching us about the Berlin Airlift because she just loved it so much. The Candy Bomber, also known as Uncle Wiggly Wings, is an amazingly heartwarming story. Gail Halverson was a photographer as a hobby and while in Berlin, took some snapshots of the city and of the operation when he encountered a group of 30+ children watching the airport runaway behind a chainlink fence. He spoke with the children and was touched by their harden resilience in the face of such dreary odds that he gave them what little candy he had, just two sticks of gum. The kids shared it all amongst themselves and thoses that didn't get a piece simply tore up the wrappers so they could smell it. Feeling terrible that he couldn't give them more, he promised that he would be back with more candy for the children, enough for them all. When wondering how they would know which plane to look out for, informing them that they should look out for the one with wiggling wings. Dubbed unofficially as Operation Little Vittles, it was initially just Gail, his copilot, and an engineer doing it. Soon, it quickly opened expanded with their friends, later their whole squadron, and finally word reached the US Government who turned it into an official aspect of the Berlin Airlift with schools and candy manufacturers getting involved.

[@scumonkey]

I live on the outer Banks of NC. Gail Halvorson, aka the "Candy Bomber", had been coming here every Christmas for twenty years (until he passed away at age 101 in 2022), flying a C54 plane used in the Berlin Airlift. He would drop candy for our local kids in a reenactment of the candy drops he performed in Germany. He was someone quite special!

[@coffeetime1707]

This made my heart smile. How amazing it must have been for all the people.

[@CPAndy-x5x]

"The greatest generation!"

[@Princess_Celestia_]

"How is that even possible?" When America is involved, anything is possible. We don't even know the meaning of the word impossible.

[@Choalith_Ikanthe]

America: "Hold my fuckin' beer." The UK: "Holy shit, that's awesome, mate! Lets go!" Everyone Else: "... What in the actual FUCK???" Gotta love it.

[@markpukey8]

@@Choalith_IkantheLove it. Yeah, we don't do it often, but every now and then, we really do pull off those "Hold my fuckin' beer" stunts. And when we do... our brothers in the UK are right there joining in.

[@april8293]

​@choalithikanthe2422 My father was in Korea, and he would tell my sister and I 'hold my beer' stories. 🇺🇸

[@mishawnuodo1]

How is that possible? Simple. Tell America it's impossible. If we can't find a way, we'll make it. We've got scientists and rednecks. The rednecks will get shit going and the scientists will make it long term.

[@nancyjanzen5676]

We do the impossible immediately. The merely difficult takes time.

[@AnnieDC304]

I was in Berlin the summer before the wall came down, stayed in West Berlin but did day trip into East. We were sitting in a cafe one afternoon and a man came up and asked if he could talk to us for a few minutes, and joined us. He told us he had been a child during the Berlin Airlift and that it saved his life. He and his family had been starving to death. He said he tried to make it a point to approach and thank anyone he heard speaking English. And he did mention the candy, with a big smile on his face. He said most of the children had virtually never before had the luxury of eating candy. As events in history move further into the past, what is taught in school gets replaced by more recent things, I suppose. I don’t know if the Berlin airlift is still taught, but it was a magnificent operation and sometimes I tear up when I see things like this. I am sorry you didn’t learn about this in school. It was something both of our countries can be proud of.

[@camillep3631]

oh thank you for sharing that. I often wondered about kids and what kind of an impact the airlift had on them. That one would remember and make a point to seek out US/UK citizens to thank them is just wonderful. Yes, we can be EXTREMELY proud!

[@nneichan9353]

remember this is just the planes to Berlin. West Germany had to get all that tonnage of food and supplies(fuel and coal) delivered to all the airfield in W Germany before it could fly into Berlin. this was a logistical orchestra.

[@camillep3631]

It was a logistical master class

[@camillep3631]

He didn't even talk about the night landings, very dangerous, they tri-angulated the approach on the ground and fed the numbers to the pilots, it was VERY intense and they did lose planes and airmen...but they didn't stop

[@kellytrimble7019]

I guess they quit covering this in history class. I’m 60 yrs old & we learned about it in school back in the 70’s. You didn’t mess with Truman! 😂

[@anonygent]

Except when China invaded Korea and pushed MacArthur back to the sea, Truman blinked.

[@corpusD]

I knew the Candy Bomber. He retired in the Charleston, SC area. He would waggle the plane to let the children know he was going to drop the candy parachutes.

[@maryadams5898]

I am 60++ years old I lived through part of this in the USA it is sad that it is not fully told now because it was amazing just to know about it, and how easily other countries & people forget and pick at my country's flaws [real or imagined] and not the positives.

[@sidoniasknight]

other countries do like to bite the hand that feeds them literally. sure the U.S might not be a utopia but is has helped the world more then any other country in the world that why im proud to be an American.

[@johnhelwig8745]

Glad you finally reacted to this video. It is one of my favorite Fat Electrician vlogs. It is just a great feel good video where the US and UK worked together.

[@steveullrich7737]

It's a testament to American and British democratic and humanitarian ideals that despite the horrible atrocities and deaths committed by the German war machine a few years before that they came to the aid of their former mortal enemy and saved a city from starvation. These values are what the West and America stood for, but it seems many have completely forgotten these ideals now a days. I learned this is school, but this was in 1965 but don’t know what they teach now a days. However, I didn't know all the logistics involved.

[@chrispavlich9656]

They probably teach Tik Tok and Conceal and Carry.

[@Revkor]

because schools are run my communists nowadays

[@logan4005]

The term “Berlin Airlift” sounds familiar. We may have touched on it in school. But I didn’t know all that. Pretty incredible. The western world kicks butt. Especially when we agree on something and team up.

[@b3s13g3d]

Bro, you need to check out some of the various videos on unsafe intercepts caused by Russian and Chinese pilots doing that stuff. One of them, Chinese pilots caused one of our Navy anti-submarine warfare planes, a P-3 Orion, to have to execute an emergency landing on a Chinese airfield, resulting in the capture of that aircraft, which personally I feel like we never properly took them to task for.

[@alittleaccurate3080]

Hearts and Minds. Doesn’t always win wars, but influences entire generations.

[@FrogmanAnime]

Just how does anyone in the western world not know about the Berlin airlift? It’s cool that you are taking the time to learn now though. Truthfully, I learned about this in school, I’m just surprised that is a British subject you didn’t. But then again I was born in the early 80s so I grew up in the tail end of the communist era. Also take a good close look at his shirt, especially at the C in communism…😮😮😂😂

[@CovidPsyop2024]

💪🏼USA and UK 💪🏼

[@camillep3631]

My dad's best friend was a pilot during the airlift. The staggering number of pounds of goods and foodstuffs is mind-boggling.

[@richardhenry1742]

I have read about the Berlin Airlift in a book along time ago. It didn't go that intense in knowledge of the lift. This brings tears to my eyes and joy in my heart. That 1939 too 1945 these countries where at war and killing each other, in the end came together to save the lives of their enemy. Bless them for there actions.

[@dianabodemer1889]

I remember when the wall came down. It was about damn time!

[@senyart890]

You're right. This should be talked about all the time. People getting organized and doing good. It happened it can be that way again.

[@formernorcal2530]

Truman was a tough MF

[@morgans7704]

There is a glaring reason you don't get taught this in a history class, aside from a passing anecdote: As world governments try again to adopt Socialism (requiring of a large measure of authoritarianism-- in some cases, absolute totalitarianism-- to work), they require rewrites of history to distance it from Communism by not even referring to it (despite the latter being a branch of the former). That's why it's taught that the Nazi-Soviet pact broke down over ideology (though they were ideologically married; the only difference being how pressure was applied to economic generators) as opposed to being a land dispute (Germany attempting to re-establish an empire, including Soviet land). In essence: Keep the people from knowing about the cliff they themselves will be guided over, and its inherent danger, and they will jump, especially when promised euphoria at the bottom. (I should add a side note here: The end goal is not Socialism or any of its more extremist brackets-- they are merely methods-- but totalitarian control over every aspect of a life.)

[@JoyDonald-f5g]

There are Canadians in with the British.. a little bit of snow is nothing! Neither is a crap ton of snow!! Lol 😂😂 it snows in many parts of the USA too. nothing much will stop humanitarian aid! ❤❤

[@JPMadden]

One interesting part of the story only briefly discussed was that the necessity of flying 24-7 in all weather conditions led to the development of modern air traffic control techniques. So many people from East Berlin crossed easily into West Berlin that the Soviets built the Berlin Wall in 1961. The U.S. did not build larger cargo planes just for the Berlin Airlift (it takes several years to design a new plane). They already existed.

[@nancyjanzen5676]

We just rushed tge production

[@JPMadden]

@@nancyjanzen5676 All of the cargo planes used in the Berlin Airlift were already in use. The larger ones with longer ranges were likely not in Europe, where distances are small. Only 14 of the large C-74s were ever built, from 1945-47. Most of the cargo was hauled by the medium-size C-54s, which were shown but not mentioned. Nearly 1200 of these were built from 1942 to 1947. The C-54 had a cargo capacity of 10-14 tons for short flights.

[@daricetaylor737]

Lewis, I find it hard to believe that they don't teach you about this in your schools. Europe as a whole loves to bag on us Americans saying we are uneducated regarding the rest of the world, but we learned all about this in our world history classes.

[@L3WGReacts]

yeah for some reason in school we didn’t learn anything about America. It was mainly the Roman Empire, European wars, Victorian times etc, I actually can’t think of one time we learned anything about America in school

[@daricetaylor737]

@@L3WGReacts Although this story revolves around the US as we supplied the goods, it was accomplished by the combined efforts of the US, Germany and you guys! So, knowing this only confuses me more as to why you did not hear about it before now.

[@AnnieDC304]

We were taught in history classes about the British bravery in WW2, and, early on, the burden you shouldered in the early years of the war before we got off our butts. The resilience of your country during the London Blitz has always amazed me. I don’t expect one country to dwell on the history of another, but I hope they at least mentioned to you that we were Allies?🙄@@L3WGReacts

[@feralon9570]

I never heard of this and I'm American and 50 years old. It happened in 1949, so anyone alive from this would be in their 90's. I guess I musta missed that week in school. lol

[@daricetaylor737]

@@feralon9570 Maybe different school curriculum in different states? I definitely learned about this and I grew up in CA and I am 62....if that gives you more of a reference.

[@JoeCensored]

I'm surprised this isn't taught in British schools. I was taught this in American school. It's a shining moment in British and American cooperation and history.

[@gdfinke]

His next video is on the Berlin wall, watch it too.

[@L3WGReacts]

I can’t wait

[@keithpierce5686]

*"What one can do is amazing, what many can accomplish is awe-inspiring"*

[@moonshadowessentialssoapsn5287]

I was taught this in school when I was in 5 th grade. Our teacher used to say “ if we don’t learn the tragedies of the past we are destined to repeat them in the future.” This is one of the most human moments ever. Well I don’t remember, but I know now if u attack or kidnap an aide workers. It’s considered a war crime. But, nowadays u have ppl like terrorist who can care less about war crimes so they do kidnap them. This shows the cruelty that humans are capable of, however it showed true luv and humanity at the same time. It’s that mind blowing that u have ppl who aren’t even behaving as humans and u have ppl show exactly what it is to be human. This always blows my mind about this.

[@KTKacer]

We're Americans - we'll make it work. IKR? I didn't know about it either until I saw the video TFE did initially. He (TFE) has uncovered LOTS over the last 250+ years' worth of history.

[@buffalobill9958]

It's crazy this isn't taught in the UK. America definitely teaches it, pretty sure it's required

[@dking1836]

The new USAF needed newer planes as the C47 was actually designed before WWII started. One big lesson from WWII was, transporting logistics is a HUGE problem and we need much better planes. SO the Globemaster was already designed when this mess started, they just rushed it into production to help with the airlift. Also, we were developing jet engines by this time, so basically ALL of the "current" piston powered aircraft were becoming obsolete. America's first jet, the P-59, was first flown in 1942, but like the Germans, we did not get a lot of them into production for the war effort as the first ones were under-powered. The Brits had loaned us an engine to copy, but the P-59 was heavier (metal vs wood wings). The contract for the B-52 was signed in 1946, but the final design took years as it originally had a straight wing with six engines and ended up with swept wings and eight engines. So the new USAF was getting all sorts of new planes after the war...

[@ericwallace3175]

Berlin airlift was part of my history class.

[@rohan1970b]

I'm surprised you never heard of this. I wonder if it's a UK/US education thing, or the fact that I was in high school 35 years ago. :) We learned it about (briefly) in both US and World History.

[@cloverite]

But we’re you told America was solely responsible for the whole thing, and the little British helped a bit

[@claregale9011]

Yeh and I bet it was all about the u.s lol how they won the war for everybody else

[@Cody38Super]

This is why we're #1 at everything....no one can touch our logistics, period.

[@jakewalter9323]

We are not #1 at everything bud. I love my country but we are not #1. Military wise yes #1.

[@Cody38Super]

@@jakewalter9323 #1 economy, #1 military, #1 technology, #1 in medicine, #1 in innovation, #1 entertainment, #1 charity /financial aid, #1 in global culture, #1 in BBQ, what other dynamics do you want Jakie? We're #1 in all the shit that matters and all the things that makes the modern world go round everyday and without us, more than the next 9 countries combined, without us the world comes to a grinding halt, and the global economy crashes.....WE'RE NUMBER ONE.

[@jakewalter9323]

@@Cody38Super you're living a dream or something cause from what I see we're failing in education and from your statistics you are a example of that education

[@jakewalter9323]

@Cody38Super our economy is in the toilet otherwise 90% of our citizens wouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck. Inflation has gone rampant so those numbers you're seeing as our economy means nothing to the rest of the world since we left the gold standard

[@chrispavlich9656]

@@Cody38Super#1 in gun ownership and #1 in mass shootings.

[@kirkjones9639]

On another note. NO Blue Wales were harmed in the making of the video.

[@barryfletcher7136]

PLEASE note it was a joint UK/US operation.

[@austins9950]

i’m shocked he said he bebe learned about this. we learned about this in like high school and middle school

[@despairfilledidiot6179]

L3WG should watch Wendigoon’s video on the Battle of Castle Itter. A battle where Germans, Americans, and French celebrities teamed up to defend a castle against other Germans. During (at the end of) WWII.

[@nancyjanzen5676]

Or just the Sabaton music video.

[@revgurley]

One of the historical events I remember is the tear-down of the Berlin Wall. It ended this mess of East vs West. and the Cold War.

[@MIKE_F44]

that’s the next TFE video.

[@gkiferonhs]

You would like to review this channel's video of The Berlin Wall. Your comment about "people probably wanted to just leave" makes me think you don't know about The Wall.

[@ecksfactor]

This is my above all, favorite story from Fat Electrician

[@maxr4448]

I wasn't alive during the blockade. I was told by my parents. They supported it. I lived thru the Russian invasion thru Czechoslovakia in August 1968....we didn't do anything.

[@jacobs2162]

That's the craziest thing of your generation and a testament to the education you received. All the generations before knew about this historic event

[@ellisbrandi84]

I had a teacher in school who divided the classroom to teach us about this. For half the class you were in one half and then switched to the other side. The west side was playing games, had candy, and snacks while the east side had to do bookwork without talking. Simple, but fun way to get a lesson instead of just reading about it.

[@brendadickenson3547]

I remember this Dropping Candy! I wasn't there but heard about! Remember the Berlin Wall was not yet built they sent vehicles, fuel for heat and medicines, etc.I had friends that came over to ourside.and left everything except money, jewelry..before the wall was built!

[@Britcarjunkie]

The Berlin Airlift was one of the best "F&%k You"s to Communism that the world has ever seen. Another was when Reagan started the imaginary "Star Wars" program, causing the Soviet Union to spend themselves into bankruptcy. There was also the famous "Kitchen Debate" between Nixon and Kruschev, over Capitalism versus Communism. There was another that few know about, and it happened in the 1990's: Cuba - having been a dependent of the former Soviet Union since Castro rose to power, was suddenly in need of oil & fuel for its military, as the regular ships from the former Soviet Union ceased as the new Russian government was picking up the pieces, and starting over. So, since Russia couldn't help at the time, Castro turned to China for help, claiming the fuel & oul was "for the people, so they can get around, as well as for farmers, to plow and harvest their crops". China knew what it was really for, and had recently been bestowed with "favorite nation" trading status from the Clinton administration, and they did NOT want to screw that up. But, they still wanted to help their fellow Communists in Cuba. So, China sent two cargo ships to Cuba: one full of oxen for the farmers, the other full of bicycles for the people - problem solved! 🤣😅😂