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Gail Halvorsen was born on October 10, 1920, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve on May 17, 1942, and entered the Aviation Cadet Program of the U.S. Army Air Forces on March 29, 1943. Halvorsen was commissioned a 2d Lt and awarded his pilot wings on June 17, 1944, and then completed C-47 Dakota transport training before being assigned to the Air Transport Command at Natal Air Base and Fortaleza Air Base, Brazil, from August 1944 to October 1946. Lt Halvorsen next flew C-54 Skymaster transports at Morrison Field, Florida, from October 1946 to July 1947, followed by service at Brookley AFB, Alabama, from August 1947 to May 1949. During this time, Halvorsen served in Europe in support of the Berlin Airlift as a C-54 pilot from July 1948 to February 1949, and was nicknamed the "Berlin Candy Bomber" when he came up with the idea of dropping candy attached to parachutes to children during the airlift. This action was dubbed Operation Little Vittles and Halvorsen

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