Kolonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen (10 Oktober 1920 – 16 Februari 2022) adalah seorang purnawirawan dan pilot komando dalam Angkatan Udara Amerika Serikat. 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.
Gail Halvorsen | |
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Julukan | Uncle Wiggly Wings Berlin Candy Bomber |
Lahir | Salt Lake City, Utah, A.S. | 10 Oktober 1920
Meninggal | 16 Februari 2022 Provo, Utah, A.S. | (umur 101)
Pengabdian | Amerika Serikat |
Dinas/cabang | Pasukan Udara Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat Angkatan Udara Amerika Serikat |
Lama dinas | 1942–1974 |
Pangkat | Kolonel |
Kesatuan | Komando Materiel Angkatan Udara |
Komandan | Grup Pangkalan Udara 7350 Bandar Udara Berlin Tempelhof Skuadron Instrumentasi 6596 |
Perang/pertempuran | Perang Dunia II Blokade Berlin |
Penghargaan | Legion of Merit Meritorious Service Medal Medali Emas Kongres Orde Merit (Jerman) |
Almamater | Universitas Negeri Utah Universitas Florida |
Pasangan | Alta Jolley (m. 1949; meninggal 1999)Lorraine Pace (m. 2004) |
Referensi sunting
- Thompson, Warren E. (2009). "Gail Halvorsen". Aircraft Illustrated. Ian Allan Publishing. 42 (10): 24–29. ISSN 0002-2675. dari versi asli tanggal 2019-12-11. Diakses tanggal July 11, 2016.
Bacaan tambahan sunting
- 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 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 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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Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Gail Halvorsen.
- Gail Halvorsen's personal website 2023-04-09 di Wayback Machine.
- Gail S. Halvorsen collection, MSS 2220 2019-10-06 di Wayback Machine. at L. Tom Perry Special Collections 2017-11-02 di Wayback Machine., Brigham Young University