Editor’s Note: In 2019, I traveled to the Tri-State Warbird Museum near Cincinnati, Ohio to conduct a workshop featuring Col. Gail Halvorsen (Ret.) via Zoom. He is widely known as the Berlin Candy Bomber, the pilot who, during the Berlin airlift in 1948 and 1949, dropped gum and candy in parachutes he made from handkerchiefs…
How Two Sticks of Gum Changed Lt. Gail Halvorsen’s Life
Lt. Gail Halvorsen makes parachutes from handkerchiefs to which he attaches candy and gum to drop to Berlin children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948-1949. (Photo: USAF)