Key Information
Reference code
BERLIN AIRLIFT 40
Title
Interview with US Air Force Col Gail Halvorsen ('the Candy Bomber'), [1997-1998]
Date(s)
- [1997 - 1998] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
10pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of interview with Col Gail B Halvorsen, US Air Force, in a Douglas C54 Skymaster aircraft at Tempelhof airfield, Berlin recounting receiving a teddy bear from a German child, also gifts of flowers, and describing how he came to drop candy to the children during the Berlin airlift, 1948-1949. 10pp