U.S. military pilot Gail S. Halvorsen — known as the “Candy Bomber” for his candy airdrops during the Berlin airlift after World War II ended — has died at age 101. Halvorsen died Wednesday following ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Colonel Gail Halvorsen, who was known as the “Berlin Candy Bomber” because he dropped parachutes filled with candy for German children after World War II, died at age 101. The ...

WIESBADEN, Germany – When millions of Germans living in West Berlin were cut off from the rest of the world by a Soviet Union blockade in 1948 it kicked off the Berlin Airlift - the largest ...

If they couldn’t get supplies to Berlin on land, they would go by air. They immediately launched the Berlin Airlift, 200,000 sorties conducted around the clock. Nearly 12,941 tons of essential food ...

DENVER (AP) — A U.S. military pilot known as the "Candy Bomber" for his airdrops of sweets during the Berlin airlift after World War II ended has died. Gail Halvorsen died Wednesday in his home state ...

Amid the brutality of a bombed-out city, during the darkest days of war — a sweet ray of hope. In the final two years of World War II, Germany’s capital endured more than 360 air raids. What bombers ...