USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This project, code-named “Operation VITTLES” by the American military, was known as the “Berlin airlift.” (West Berliners called it the “Air Bridge.”)

Detailed explanation-2: -He called for reinforcements and entrusted the operation to Brigadier General Joseph Smith, who called it Operation Vittles because, “We’re hauling grub.” The first deliveries took place on 26 June 1948, when C-47s made 32 flights into Berlin with 80 tons of cargo, mainly powdered milk, flour, and medicine.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Operation Vittles, ” better known as the Berlin Airlift, began when the Soviet Union blockaded the western zone of Berlin. For 18 months, Allied forces flew round-the-clock, bringing 2.3 million tons of supplies to Berlin by air.

Detailed explanation-4: -Operation Little Vittles was a goodwill mission to drop candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949 and was headquartered in Chicopee, Massachusetts. This scrapbook is a record of the Operation Little Vittles Committee and provides information about the group of volunteers who were involved.

Detailed explanation-5: -Thus, Operation Vittles had its airborne birth on 26 June, 1948. While there had been no time to draw up an exact blueprint of the problems involved and the solving thereof, plans, planes and trucks alerted rolling. From 26 June, 1948 to 10 November, 1948 Col.