Cold War's Candy-Bomber "Captain Wiggle-Wings" & Other American Philanthropy · 9:27am Jan 20th, 2019
""Captain Wiggle Wings" the US Pilot who Dropped Tons of Candy for Kids in Berlin after Fighting their Country" from Good News Network (GNN):
"Berlin Airlift 'Candy Bomber' still Dropping Sweets from the Sky after 70 Years" from ABC News:
"70 years ago, the US Saved a City from certain Starvation" from Quartz:
"The Sweet Story of the Berlin Candy-Bomber" from Smithsonian Magazine:
""Candy-Bomber" re-enacts famous Berlin air drop at Smith Reynolds Airport" from Winston-Salem Journal:
Corroboration & Further Reading:
"Ore. woman to meet "Candy-Bomber," her Cold War hero" from USA Today.
Amazon also offers several books about the Candy-Bomber.
Whilst studying the United States' foreign policy, I learned of Herbert Hoover's humanitarian experience prior to being elected president & Henry Stimson's philanthropy in both domestic & foreign policy before being appointed as Secretary of State (by President Hoover, a Republican) & as Secretary of War (by President FDR, a Democrat). As Governor of the Philippines, Henry Stimson advocated against the Philippines' self-governance & total independence from the United States, though he proved less severe in that stance than many others: unlike his predecessors, Stimson allowed locals to elect native Filipinos to govern themselves whilst still maintaining the United States' overall dominion in that region.
In jest, I started referencing Henry Stimson as a "pro-war philanthropist" for the amusing & intriguing juxtaposition of his philanthropy in the Philippines & in his career as a corporate lawyer (handling anti-trust cases & prosecuting monopolies) in contrast to how comfortable he was in war; during World War I, Stimson advocated for the United States' military intervention, & he rejected a job-offer from the millionaire Herbert Hoover to voluntarily join an artillery-company in the United States' army at age 50 before "climbing the ladder" & being promoted to colonel. Whilst not "pro-war" by the strictest definition of that term, Henry Stimson supported military intervention, voluntarily enlisted in the military, & served as Secretary of War for two terms.
I smiled after reading the following excerpt. Following the Tampico Affair wherein Mexican officials arrested & detained American sailors, Congress approved an invasion of Mexico during the Mexican Revolution & President Wilson ordered an occupation; the excerpt describes the futility of some philanthropy by the United States during that occupation. The excerpt exemplified the act of "cutting off the nose to spite the face". ;P
United States' 2000 Humanitarian Daily Ration (foreign aid ration for refugees & victims of natural disasters):
