Cold War-era 'Candy Bomber,' no stranger to Travis, dies at 101
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
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