Colonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen is a retired officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" and gained fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949.
His story directly inspired the Chapter 22 - The Candy Bomber in the historical novel "Eagles Over Berlin".
Here below Tom Brokaw's interview with Gail Halvorsen :
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