01237cam a2200289 4500 66813176 TxAuBib 20050929120000.0 050929s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2002001887 9781585360697 $17.95 1585360694 $17.95 DLC DLC NjBwBT TxAuBib Raven, Margot Theis. Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot / by Margot Theis Raven. Chelsea, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, 2002. p. cm. The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift. 20050929. Halvorsen, Gail S., ill. Simon, Mercedes. United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command Biography--Juvenile literature. Air pilots Biography--Juvenile literature. Girls Berlin (Germany) Biography. Berlin (Germany) HistoryBlockade, 1948-1949--Juvenile literature. Germany History 1945-1990.