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We lost the Candy Bomber today
Sadly, Gail Halvorsen, the Berlin Airlift “Candy Bomber” passed away. (www.sltrib.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
God bless this great man read a heart warming article about how he dropped candy over Berlin and not a single bomb.Fly high with the angels.
Was Right there in Berlin when he flew over….just too little to be at Tempelhof!
Rest In Peace
All of the superlatives may be accurate, but most importantly he was human and thought more of others than himself!
Heard from ONE friend, that she couldn't read the WHOLE story, UNLESS she subscribed to the newspaper.She probably couldn't find that much interest in a "Salt Lake City" newspaper, being as she lives in Poland. I got the whole story, maybe because I have 2 "Ad Blockers". R I P Gail!
He wrote a book, just go to the library .... The Candy Bomber or watch the movie The Berlin Airlift.
Met him numerous times when I was assigned to West Berlin for 13 years. Also at Winchester Airport in Virginia where he was doing a static display of an airlift C-54 at an airshow in 2007 (?)
Met him numerous times when I was assigned to West Berlin for 13 years. Also at Winchester Airport in Virginia where he was doing a static display of an airlift C-54 at an airshow in 2007 (?)
The movie was great! I saw it sometime back... May go watch it again this weekend.
Tempelhof is an awesome place. There are many ghosts there from the past. It was pretty eerie walking around the ramp at night with the big lights on the hangars and all the shadows. There was an awful lot of evil followed by a lot of good and greatness that visited there over the years. We were invited to Ronald Reagan's birthday celebration in the B-Halle (Terminal) after he gave the 'tear down this wall' speech.