Gail Halvorson is shown interacting with kids in West Berlin in during the Berlin Airlift. When Gail Halvorson wiggled his airplane’s wings over West Berlin and dropped chocolate and sweets in ...

WIESBADEN, Germany — The U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden is remembering retired Col. Gail S. Halvorsen, known as the Candy Bomber, on his passing Feb. 16 at the age of 101. Halvorsen is well known ...

The Butler County Warbirds will have its fourth annual Candy Bomber event this weekend at the Middletown Regional Airport/Butler County Warbirds headquarters. “We will be dropping parachutes of candy ...

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 ...

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 ...