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Lieutenant Halvorsen came up with the idea to drop candies, chocolate and chewing gum for the children of West Berlin during a tense Cold War standoff.

FReeper Canteen ~ The Berlin Airlift ~ Part 2: Operations ~ 14 December 2020 Posted on   For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.     All info and photos from    A native of New Jersey and son of an immigrant father, General Tunner was awarded an appointment to West Point upon his graduation from Roselle High School. He was one of 77 cadets in his West Point graduating class who chose flying as his military career. He joined an Air Force which had literally no transport aircraft and no airlift strategy, planning or capa...