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German
Etymology
Rosine (“raisin”) + -n- + Bomber (“bomber”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: Ro‧si‧nen‧bom‧ber
Noun
Rosinenbomber m (strong, genitive Rosinenbombers, plural Rosinenbomber)
- (colloquial, humorous, historical) Candy Bomber, Raisin Bomber (American or British transport aircraft which brought in supplies by airlift to West Berlin during the Soviet Berlin Blockade in 1948/1949)
1956 November 22, “Der Frieden hat es eilig”, in DIE ZEIT, number 47, →ISSN, page 4:Damals starteten und landeten in Tempelhof die Rosinenbomber, wie die Berliner die blockadebrechenden Flugzeuge nannten, wie am laufenden Band.- Back then, the Raisin Bombers, as the Berliners called the blockade-breaking aircraft, started and landed in the non-stop line.
1968 June 17, “Aber was?”, in DER SPIEGEL, number 25, →ISSN, page 27:Doch Washington fand noch einen Ausweg: Die Amerikaner gingen in die Luft, überbrückten mit ihren „Rosinenbombern“ die Blockade zu Lande, akzeptierten aber auch die politische Teilung der Stadt durch die SED und gaben damit zu erkennen, daß sie sich mitsamt ihren beiden Verbündeten künftig nur noch für West-Berlin zuständig fühlten.- But Washington found another way out: The Americans went up in the air, bridged the blockade on land with their “Candy Bombers”, but also accepted the political division of the city by the SED and thereby indicated that they together with their two allies henceforth only felt responsible for West Berlin.
1976, Georg Lentz, Muckefuck: Roman, München: C. Bertelsmann, →ISBN, page 332:Über uns flogen in Dreiminutenabständen die Rosinenbomber in die Stadt.- Raisin Bombers flew into the city above us at three-minute intervals.
1999 May 17, Steffen Hebestreit, “50 Jahre nach dem Ende der Berlin-Blockade erinnerten 120 US-Veteranen an die Luftbrücke für die eingeschlossene Stadt”, in Frankfurter Rundschau, →ISSN, page 15:Vor 51 Jahren kam der deutschstämmige Herman zum erstenmal an den Main – als Pilot eines „Rosinenbombers“.- 51 years ago, Herman who is of German descent came to the Main for the first time – as a pilot of a “Raisin Bomber”.
2019 March 26, “Rosinenbomber können vielleicht doch landen”, in Berliner Morgenpost, page 10:Weil die Piloten aus ihren Cockpits oft auch Süßigkeiten für die Kinder abwarfen, wurden die Flugzeuge liebevoll als Rosinenbomber bezeichnet.- The planes were affectionately referred to as Candy Bombers because the pilots often dropped candy for the children from their cockpits.
Declension
Declension of Rosinenbomber
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