ST. GEORGE At nearly 101 years old, Gail Halvorsen made yet another flight to spread candy and smiles, this time to St. George residents during the city s annual Fourth of July celebration.
Marilyn Halvorsen Sorensen, Gail Halvorsen s daughter, noted that the beloved Candy Bomber will turn 101 in October. I said, Are you up for one more? And he said: Only one more? Sorensen told KSL.com. He loves his country, and we re just glad that we can be here.
Halvorsen served as one of the pilots in a huge U.S. airlift that saved two million Germans from starvation. The Soviet Union had blockaded West Berlin in an attempt to take it away from the western Allies. The Utah native flew planeload after planeload of flour and coal that German volunteers eagerly unloaded.
100-year-old Candy Bomber will take last flight in Utah July 3
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Photo of Colonel Gail Halverson, aka the Candy Bomber, provided by ABC4. The interview above happened in 2014 on Temple Square in Salt Lake City
ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) – Utah’s standing legacy, Colonel Gail Halverson AKA the “Candy Bomber” will be taking flight for the very last time, this Fourth of July weekend.
On July 3, in partnership with Dixie State University, United We Pledge, Balance of Nature and the KONY Country 4th of July Celebration, Halverson, at the age of 100, will board a helicopter and be flown over the Greater Zion Stadium, where he will drop candy.