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I read with great enjoyment, the excellent article about Col. Gail Halvorsen’s life in the Sunday, Feb. 20 edition of the Daily Republic. Colonel Halvorsen’s last visit to Travis Air Force Base was Jan. 31, 2020, at 9 a.m. for an hour and a half. Halvorsen met with some of the senior members a

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

Retired Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen, the “Candy Bomber” who brought joy to Berlin's children by dropping candy in tiny handkerchief parachutes from his plane when the Soviets blockaded the divided city during the Cold War, has died. He was 101.

The annual event was derailed last year by a tornado and the pandemic. The last of the original pilots who did the candy drops in the 1940s in Berlin, 100-year-old Gail Halvorsen, is expected to return for this year's re-enactment in Dare County.