The 'Candy Bomber' who dropped sweets during the Berlin airlift has died at age 101
"Halvorsen's deeply human act has never been forgotten," Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said in a statement.
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"Halvorsen's deeply human act has never been forgotten," Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said in a statement.
"Halvorsen's deeply human act has never been forgotten," Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said in a statement.
U.S. military pilot Gail S. Halvorsen, who died Wednesday at age 101, was beloved in Berlin for giving his own candy ration to the children there after World War II ended. Halvorsen would attach candy to handkerchief parachutes and drop them from the sky, wiggling his wings to show which plane was his.
"Halvorsen's deeply human act has never been forgotten," Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said in a statement.
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