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Col. Gail "Candy Bomber" S. Halvorsen, a pilot that dropped 23 tons of candy during the Berlin Airlift to starving German children, has passed away at 101. ....
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! ....
Posted on December 11, 2020. Germany and Europe can only successfully revive Western democracy with the United States at their side, the coordinator of trans-Atlantic cooperation for Germany writes in a guest commentary. Russia is establishing international precedents while the European Union just watches. I am often asked about the old West. Images of the Raisin Bombers or Ronald Reagan in front of the Brandenburg Gate start running through my head. This West, the foundation of our democracy and of our well-being, is history. But that does not mean that this old West is an obsolescent model. On the contrary, it is more important than it has been for a very long time to turn toward the West. ....