Retired Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen, a C-52 Skymaster pilot also known as the Candy Bomber, prepares to present a chocolate bar to Gisela Rainare, a former civilian employee at the former Frankfurt an Main Air Base, Germany, before the reopening ceremony of the Berlin Airlift Memorial outside Frankfurt International Airport, Germany, Nov. 22, 2016. Halvorsen and his fellow pilots dropped 23 tons of candy with makeshift parachutes from his C-54 as part of the Berlin Airlift, which delivered more than two million tons of food to the blockaded citizens of West Berlin between June 1948 and

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Retired Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen, a C-52 Skymaster pilot also known as the Candy Bomber, prepares to present a chocolate bar to Gisela Rainare, a former civilian employee at the former Frankfurt an Main Air Base, Germany, before the reopening ceremony of the Berlin Airlift Memorial outside Frankfurt International Airport, Germany, Nov. 22, 2016. Halvorsen and his fellow pilots dropped 23 tons of candy with makeshift parachutes from his C-54 as part of the Berlin Airlift, which delivered more than two million tons of food to the blockaded citizens of West Berlin between June 1948 and September 1949.

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