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Bombs away: 250 watch candy drop as children learn about Berlin Airlift

By REGGIE PONDER
Daily Advance Staff Writer

Sunday, December 13, 2009
Kids runningA crowd estimated at more than 250 turned out at the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Regional Airport Saturday for a “candy drop” commemorating the Berlin Airlift at the end of World War II.

As kids waited for the plane to take off and pass overhead — dropping chocolate bars on parachutes — parents and grandparents had their hands full keeping the kids on the white concrete area where they had been instructed to wait. [read full story in the Daily Advance]

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