Gail Halvorsen
Kolonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen (10 Oktober 1920 – 16 Februari 2022) adalah seorang purnawirawan dan pilot komando dalam Angkatan Udara Amerika Serikat.[1] 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 | 10 Oktober 1920 Salt Lake City, Utah, A.S. |
| Meninggal | 16 Februari 2022 (umur 101) Provo, Utah, A.S. |
| 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. Diarsipkan 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 Diarsipkan 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 Diarsipkan 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.
Pranala luar
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Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Gail Halvorsen.
- Gail Halvorsen's personal website Diarsipkan 2023-04-09 di Wayback Machine.
- Gail S. Halvorsen collection, MSS 2220 Diarsipkan 2019-10-06 di Wayback Machine. at L. Tom Perry Special Collections Diarsipkan 2017-11-02 di Wayback Machine., Brigham Young University