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The Berlin Candy Bomber

gray eagle

gray eagle

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Just saw a PBS special about Colonel Gail S. Halvorsen, or, "The Berlin Candy Bomber". He is 94 years old and believed in helping others before self.
Here is link to his web page. Some good interviews and pictures of his candy drops.
Halvorsen is affectionately known by Berliners and many around the world as as the Candy bomber ("Rosinenbomber"), Uncle Wiggly Wings ("Onkel Wackelflugel") and the Chocolate Pilot.​

http://wigglywings.weebly.com/



I don't understand why he is wearing RAF wings on the right side of his flight jacket.

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Yup,


I search and found additional info.



He earned a private pilot license under the non-college Civilian Pilot Training Program in September 1941. Almost concurrently Gail joined the Civil Air Patrol as a pilot. He joined the United States Army Air Corps in June 1942. Fighter pilot training was with the Royal Air Force after which he was returned to the Army Air Corps and was assigned flight duties in foreign transport operations in the South Atlantic Theater. After WW-II he flew in the Berlin Airlift where he became known as, “Uncle Wiggly Wings”, the “Chocolate Flyer” and the “Berlin Candy Bomber”.
 
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