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Berlin Candy Bomber beats back COVID-19
Gail Halvorsen, the pilot who was known and loved by German children in the late 1940s as the Candy Bomber, mostly recovered from the coronavirus, his daughter told German media on Thursday.
Halvorsen, who lives in the US state of Utah and recently turned 100 years of age, has a cough but is otherwise doing very well, Denise Williams said.
The former pilot became famous after the end of World War II, when US, British and Allied pilots made hundreds of thousands of deliveries of groceries and supply by air.
100-year-old Berlin Candy Bomber beats back coronavirus infection
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Gail Halvorsen, the U.S. pilot who was known and loved by German children in the late 1940s as the Candy Bomber, has mostly recovered from the coronavirus, his daughter said.
Halvorsen, who lives in the western state of Utah and turned 100 years old earlier this year, has a cough but is otherwise doing “very well,” Denise Williams said on Thursday.
“He seems almost back to his normal 100-year-old self,” she said, adding that he was grateful for all the get-well messages, including many from Germany.
He caught the virus in December.
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The hero of the Berlin Airlift
During the Berlin Airlift, one US pilot threw candy from his aeroplane for the kids in West Berlin. Since then, children have honored him for his work. DW met the Candy Bomber. In the summer of 1948, the young American pilot Gail S. Halvorsen ran across the landing strip at Tempelhof airport in West Berlin. Thirty children stood behind the barbed wire fence. Gimme chocolate, they asked the 27-year-old. They weren t begging, they were just asking for chocolate, he remembers. But the pilot only had two pieces of gum in his pocket: Two! For 30 kids!