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Gail Halvorsen
Colonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen (born October 10, 1920) is a retired career officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He is well known as the original Candy Bomber or the "Rosinenbomber" in Germany and a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal.〔http://www.standard.net/Local/2014/12/01/Candy-Bomber-to-receive-Congressional-Gold-Medal.html〕 He piloted C-47s and C-54s during the Berlin airlift ("Operation Vittles") from 1948–1949.〔http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/about/gail-halvorsen-candy-bomber?lang=eng〕
==Biography==
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, America, Halvorsen grew up on small farms in Utah and Idaho. He earned a private pilot license under the non-college Civilian Pilot Training Program in September 1941. At about the same time, Gail joined the Civil Air Patrol as a pilot. He joined the United States Army Air Corps in June 1942. Halvorsen was 22 when he arrived in Miami to train with 25 RAF pilots at the No. 3 British Flying Training School, a branch of the Spartan School of Aeronautics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first1=Wally )〕 After fighter pilot training with the Royal Air Force, he returned to the Army Air Corps and was assigned flight duties in foreign transport operations in the South Atlantic Theater. After World War II, he flew in the Berlin Airlift, where he became known as "Uncle Wiggly Wings," the "Chocolate flier," and the "Berlin Candy Bomber".
In 1949 and 1952, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Aeronautical Engineering. From 1952 to 1970, he worked for Air Force Systems Command in aircraft and, beginning in 1958, research and development and operational duties in the Air Force Space Program. He chaired source selection for the Titan III Space Launch vehicle.
From 1970 to 1974, Colonel Halvorsen was assigned as the Commander of Tempelhof Central Airport in Berlin and as the United States Air Force Representative to the city of Berlin. He earned a master's degree in counseling and guidance in 1973. Gail retired from the Air Force on 30 September 1974 with over 8000 flying hours. From 1976 until 1986 he was the Assistant Dean of Student Life at Brigham Young University. He participated in a C-130 night food resupply drop over Bosnia in March 1994. He flew in the 1998 Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation C-54, the “Spirit of Freedom,” across the North Atlantic for 69 days, including 27 air shows in four European countries.
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