Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot: A True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy That Dropped from the Sky

During the Berlin Airlift, a humanitarian rescue mission that utilized British and American pilots to fly supplies into West Berlin, one of the American pilots, Lt. Halvorsen, came to be known as the Chocolate Pilot to seven-year-old Mercedes and the other children of Berlin. 20,000 first printing.