Aviation History

THE CANDY BOMBER

n this issue of you will read about many people who dropped things from airplanes. “Borate bombers” dropped retardant on forest fires; U.S. Army Lieutenant Myron S. Crissy developed ways to drop explosives from airplanes; and B-24 Liberator crews dropped bombs on Europe while Soviets and Germans dropped bombs on each other. (As

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