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Gail S. "Hal" Halvorsen died Thursday night at Utah Valley Hospital in Provo after a brief illness. He was 101. Halvorsen was known as the Berlin Candy Bomber. As an Air Force pilot in World War II, he dropped candy to children in Germany in an effort known as Operation Little Vittles.