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Between June 1948 and September 1949 Allied transport planes carried more than 2.3 million tons of supplies into West Berlin, saving its citizens from a Soviet blockade.
Halvorsen died Wednesday following a brief illness in his home state of Utah, surrounded by his children, James Stewart, the director of the Gail S. Halvorsen Aviation Foundation, said.
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE Retired Col. Gail Halvorsen, known as the Cold War-era Berlin “Candy Bomber,” died Wednesday in Provo, Utah, after a brief illness. He was 101.
Halvorsen, who in recent years visited airmen at Travis Air Force Base, started his career in 1942 in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He se