Gail S. Halvorsen - The Berlin Candy Bomber

ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AND MEMENTOS

The following photos depict activities since the last printing of The Berlin Candy Bomber.

Alta and Gail meeting Prince Phillip at Fairford Air Show in England, July 26, 1998.

Photo with President Bush, Andrews AFB, Washington, DC, September 2004, prior to President Bushs departure to a conference.

Delivering Santa Claus in the Spirit of Freedom to the kids at Manteo Airport, North Carolina, December 17, 2003. Near Kitty Hawk.

C-54 Spirit of Freedom Tim Chopp and Gail prior to take off for flight over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 17, 2003, anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight. The third year in a row that they did it.

Ambassador to Germanys wife, Sue Timken (right), holding the book Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot and reading it to German Children in October 2005.

Mural about the Airlift presented to President Reagan in July 1987, Tempelhof Central Airport, Berlin. The President greeted Gail at the presentation of the Mural. Gail is in front, taken in July 2004. He is also in the far left of the mural.

Mercedes Wild and Gail at the Tempelhof Central Airport reception in September 2005 announcing The Berlin Candy Bomber and Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot coming out in the German language.

Martin Roenkendorf from Hamburg, Germany, on his visit to the Berlin Candy Bomber in Arizona. They will meet with Martins father in the Allied Museum, Berlin, on May 12, 2009.

Twenty-two schools in the Chicopee, MA, area tied up and sent eight hundred pounds of candy parachutes almost every other day to Gail and his successor, Captain Willy Williams. This source and others made a total of over 21 tons of candy delivered by air, or on the ground, from July 1948 until the end of September 1949.

Gail Halvorsen with his son, Bob, after flying Gails REMOS from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to Spanish Fork, Utah, in 2007.

Gail in a REMOS with chocolate bars for children waiting for him near the LDS Temple in Sacramento, California, 2007.

Gail Halvorsen and Mercedes Wild with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, ILA Air Show, Berlin 2008. They are pictured with General Duncan McNabb (at the time vice chief of staff, USAF), second from right, and General Roger Brady (commander USAF Europe), far right.

Gail and Lorraine Halvorsen with President George Bush Sr. at the grand opening of the new American Embassy in Berlin, July 4, 2008.

New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg; Gail Halvorsen; and Lars Halter, general chairman of the General von Steuben Parade, in New York City on September 20, 2008. They were discussing plans for the parade.

Parade participants, left to right, Gail Halvorsen; German Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Klaus Scharioth; the Ambassadors wife, Dr. Ulrike Scharioth; Micaela Leon, singer; fellow Grand Marshal Ralf Moller, actor in the popular movie Gladiator; Lars Halter, Chairman; Larss wife; and Lorraine Halvorsen, Gails wife. They all led the parade down Fifth Avenue on July 20, 2008.

The Medal of Service awarded by the Europaminister from the State of Hessen, Volker Hoff. The medal was presented to Gail on the night before the General von Steuben Parade in New York City.

A photo of the Spirit of Freedom C-54 that Tim Chopp and his crew (including Gail) flew to Germany in 1998. Gail is at the ILA Air Show in Berlin in May 2008.

With Richard Perlia, the 103-year-old test pilot for Hitler before and during World War II. Richard was selling his books at the ILA Air Show in Berlin, May 2008.

With Annette Cordova, actress, on the City of Los Angeles float in the Rose Bowl Parade on January 1, 2009.

Lt. Col Kichen knew my son, a Delta Airline captain, and he gave Mrs. Galambos the airlines address. Gail has spoken with her and sent her a copy of this book. They will meet! (See .)