Gail Halvorsen

Gail Halvorsen
JulukanUncle Wiggly Wings
Berlin Candy Bomber
Lahir(1920-10-10)10 Oktober 1920
Salt Lake City, Utah, A.S.
Meninggal16 Februari 2022(2022-02-16) (umur 101)
Provo, Utah, A.S.
Pengabdian Amerika Serikat
Dinas/cabangPasukan Udara Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat
Angkatan Udara Amerika Serikat
Lama dinas1942–1974
Pangkat Kolonel
KesatuanKomando Materiel Angkatan Udara
KomandanGrup Pangkalan Udara 7350
Bandar Udara Berlin Tempelhof
Skuadron Instrumentasi 6596
Perang/pertempuranPerang Dunia II
Blokade Berlin
PenghargaanLegion of Merit
Meritorious Service Medal
Medali Emas Kongres
Orde Merit (Jerman)
AlmamaterUniversitas Negeri Utah
Universitas Florida
Pasangan
Alta Jolley
(m. 1949; meninggal 1999)

Lorraine Pace
(m. 2004)

Kolonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen (10 Oktober 1920 – 16 Februari 2022) adalah seorang purnawirawan dan pilot komando dalam Angkatan Udara Amerika Serikat.[1] Ia dikenal dengan sebutan "Berlin Candy Bomber" atau "Uncle Wiggly Wings" dan dikenal karena menjatuhkan permen kepada anak-anak Jerman pada Blokade Berlin dari 1948 sampai 1949.

Referensi

  1. ^ Thompson, Warren E. (2009). "Gail Halvorsen". Aircraft Illustrated. Ian Allan Publishing. 42 (10): 24–29. ISSN 0002-2675. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2019-12-11. Diakses tanggal July 11, 2016. 

Bacaan tambahan

  • Brokaw, Tom. Christmas From Heaven:The True Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 2013. ISBN 1-60907-700-8.
  • Cherny, Andrei The Candy Bombers – The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour. Berkeley: The Berkeley Publishing Group, 2009. ISBN 978-0-425-22771-8.
  • Halvorsen, Gail S. Gail S. Halvorsen Collection Diarsipkan 2019-10-06 di Wayback Machine., 1945–2004. MSS 2220; 20th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts; L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
  • Halvorsen, Gail S. The Berlin Candy Bomber. Bountiful, UT: Horizon Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-88290-361-6.
  • Miller, George M. To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift 1948–1949. Hawaii: University Press of the Pacific, 1998. ISBN 0-89875-805-X.
  • Launius, Roger D. Interview with Gail S. Halvorsen, USAF-Ret, May 13, 1988. Provo, Utah: L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University
  • Raven, Margot Theis. Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot: A True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy that Dropped from the Sky. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2002. ISBN 1-58536-069-4.
  • Roughton, Randy. "Forever the Candy Bomber Diarsipkan 2023-06-20 di Wayback Machine.". Airman 55, no. 3 (2011):44–47.
  • Thompson, Warren E. "Gail Halvorsen". Aircraft Illustrated 42, no. 10 (2009):24–29. ISSN 0002-2675.
  • Tunnell, Michael O. Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot". Watertown, Massachusetts: Charlesbridge, 2010. ISBN 1-58089-336-8.

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