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Exhibit honors a legacy of friendship
Cate Marquis
Issue date: 9/15/08 Section: Arts and Entertainment
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In this historic event, American, British and French airmen came together to airlift needed supplies to German civilians in Berlin caught in the blockade created by Soviet forces.
The airlift turned the German people from our recent enemies into our friends.
The airlift helped save more than 2 million men and women in Berlin but had special meaning for German children who received little parachutes with chocolate bars and gum from the "Candy Bombers."
The 60th anniversary of this historic event is honored in a traveling photo exhibit, "The Berlin Airlift - A Legacy of Friendship."
This exhibit is now on display at the Mercantile Library, in the lower level of the campus' main Thomas Jefferson Library.
The exhibit is sponsored by German Culture Center of the Center for International Studies at UM-St. Louis and the German Embassy.
"The Berlin Airlift-A Legacy of Friendship" photo exhibit is located to the left as you descend the stairs to the Mercantile Library.
The Mercantile Library, established in 1846, is the oldest library west of the Mississippi, a research library that is a founding cultural institution in St. Louis.
The exhibit's opening was kicked off with a talk by Andrei Cherny, author of "The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour," on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008 in the J.C. Penney Conference Center.
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