Gail Halvorsen's Piloting Career
Intro
Have you ever wished that candy will fall out the sky? This happened to a group of german kids in 1948 on the other side of the berlin wall. gail halvorsen made these german kids happy and he symbolized hope for the children. Halvorsen thinked that, “what then of the future? I think you will agree with me that our children are our future. not just our children, but everyone's children” said Halvorsen
Gail Halvorsen’s Piloting Career
Gail Halvorsen grew up on an small farm in Garland, Utah 20 miles south from Idaho. Subsequently, Halvorsen attend Bear River high school in Tremonton. After high school, he finished non-college pilot training program at a ground school in Oregon, during september 1941. In May 1942 ,the spring after Pearl harbor, he joined the U.S Army Air Corps. As he explained to reporters, he just wanted to fly, Because of the large amount of fighter pilots in Army Air Corps that were hired that time, this which convinced him that royal air force didn’t need pilots, so Halvorsen was assigned as a transport pilot to deliver supplies to many part of the world in his c54: South America, Europe, and Africa.He was later on ordered to , Gail Halvorsen was a child of the depression, and he felt what berlin was going through. …show more content…
So In 1948 he volunteered to deliver supplies to West Berlin .
It was time of the cold war. Germany was divided by the berlin wall because the western part was influenced by soviet union and the eastern part was under the United States influence. When soviet union stop supplying western part of Germany with food and life supplies, Amercia decided to help people that lived there. That how the berlin airlift idea was born. the supplies were delivered by airplane without landing on the enemies by dropping goods from the sky. This operation continued for more than a year. Western Germany received more than 2.3 million tons of goods of coal, milk, dried potatoes, dried
eggs.
Mercedes and the chocolate Pilot
Mercedes was an young girl living in west berlin relying on her 4 chickens to feed her and the mom. Night and day the raisin bomber soaring through the sky as an sky grocery store scaring the chickens. One day Mercedes mom was reading the newspaper. The head story was wonderful gail halvorsen was dropping candy out of his plane at the end of the tempelhof runway. Mercedes begged her mom if she can go to the runway to catch some chocolate. But it wasted her day the boy grab the candy befor she did snatch the chocolate out of the sky. She really wanted some chocolate she decided to write an letter the the chocolate pilot to drop of some candy at the chicken farm. She got her candy but how… You have to read the book!
Raining Candy
Halvorsen was coming back from one of his missions in Germany. Halvorsen noticed a group of 30 poor german kids up to 8 to 14 years old plastered on a barbwire fence at the end of the Tempelhof runway, watching the planes landing and taking of repeatedly. Gail Halvorsen loved kids, but being in Berlin he would have group of kids begging for candy. On the other hand the kids at the end of the runway were more quieter and more pilot. All they ask was
“not to abandon us we can live without all we can eat, if we can have our freedom” begged the kids, Halvorsen realized that these kid haven't had any gum and chocolate for months and not one of the kids put out there hands. It triggered Halvorsen to say “hey these children would like some chocolate” so Halvorsen dug into his pocket and pull out two piece of gum, Wrigley's Doublemint Gum “ try give that but you guy gonna have bloody noses you guy going to have fight and get out of here” but they dinit. Guys and girls that dinit got a half of stick of gum. Ask the kids that gum to rip of the wrapper and pass to the other kids so they can smell the minty gum wrapper. “I stood there dumbfounded,” said Halvorsen in a video. “Boy I need to do something for these kids” then he came up with an idea to drop it out my Douglas c-54 plane tomorrow for the same kids. for at least enough for every if you share it. He think about wiggly is wing so they knew which one has the candy is hundreds of plane land every day. then he went to the Rhien-main base operation store in side of the military base to buy a box full of chocolate also then he put handkerchief to make the candy float in the air.
The Next day same kid were there waiting for the halvorsen to come. when he came they jumped around watching him wiggle his wings and waiting to dropped his candy then he did. When he landed he saw the joy of the kids faces and they were waving at him when he landed.
Now day kids call him the candy bomber,chocolate pilot, also uncle wiggly wings. The candy symbolized hope for the children as a result of dropping the candy.
The Deeds go on
Gail halvorsen brought the joy to western Berlin kids but he did other good actions. He delivered schools in Tirana and Albania such as supplies,toys and candy to the Albanian kids at 1999 also he offered his special gift to victims of Hurricane Katrina in South Mississippi in 2005.
Have you ever wished that candy will fall out the sky? This happened to a group of german kids in 1948 on the other side of the berlin wall. gail halvorsen made these german kids happy and he symbolized hope for the children. Halvorsen thinked that, “what then of the future? I think you will agree with me that our children are our future. not just our children, but everyone's children” said Halvorsen
Gail Halvorsen’s Piloting Career
Gail Halvorsen grew up on an small farm in Garland, Utah 20 miles south from Idaho. Subsequently, Halvorsen attend Bear River high school in Tremonton. After high school, he finished non-college pilot training program at a ground school in Oregon, during september 1941. In May 1942 ,the spring after Pearl harbor, he joined the U.S Army Air Corps. As he explained to reporters, he just wanted to fly, Because of the large amount of fighter pilots in Army Air Corps that were hired that time, this which convinced him that royal air force didn’t need pilots, so Halvorsen was assigned as a transport pilot to deliver supplies to many part of the world in his c54: South America, Europe, and Africa.He was later on ordered to , Gail Halvorsen was a child of the depression, and he felt what berlin was going through. …show more content…
So In 1948 he volunteered to deliver supplies to West Berlin .
It was time of the cold war. Germany was divided by the berlin wall because the western part was influenced by soviet union and the eastern part was under the United States influence. When soviet union stop supplying western part of Germany with food and life supplies, Amercia decided to help people that lived there. That how the berlin airlift idea was born. the supplies were delivered by airplane without landing on the enemies by dropping goods from the sky. This operation continued for more than a year. Western Germany received more than 2.3 million tons of goods of coal, milk, dried potatoes, dried
eggs.
Mercedes and the chocolate Pilot
Mercedes was an young girl living in west berlin relying on her 4 chickens to feed her and the mom. Night and day the raisin bomber soaring through the sky as an sky grocery store scaring the chickens. One day Mercedes mom was reading the newspaper. The head story was wonderful gail halvorsen was dropping candy out of his plane at the end of the tempelhof runway. Mercedes begged her mom if she can go to the runway to catch some chocolate. But it wasted her day the boy grab the candy befor she did snatch the chocolate out of the sky. She really wanted some chocolate she decided to write an letter the the chocolate pilot to drop of some candy at the chicken farm. She got her candy but how… You have to read the book!
Raining Candy
Halvorsen was coming back from one of his missions in Germany. Halvorsen noticed a group of 30 poor german kids up to 8 to 14 years old plastered on a barbwire fence at the end of the Tempelhof runway, watching the planes landing and taking of repeatedly. Gail Halvorsen loved kids, but being in Berlin he would have group of kids begging for candy. On the other hand the kids at the end of the runway were more quieter and more pilot. All they ask was
“not to abandon us we can live without all we can eat, if we can have our freedom” begged the kids, Halvorsen realized that these kid haven't had any gum and chocolate for months and not one of the kids put out there hands. It triggered Halvorsen to say “hey these children would like some chocolate” so Halvorsen dug into his pocket and pull out two piece of gum, Wrigley's Doublemint Gum “ try give that but you guy gonna have bloody noses you guy going to have fight and get out of here” but they dinit. Guys and girls that dinit got a half of stick of gum. Ask the kids that gum to rip of the wrapper and pass to the other kids so they can smell the minty gum wrapper. “I stood there dumbfounded,” said Halvorsen in a video. “Boy I need to do something for these kids” then he came up with an idea to drop it out my Douglas c-54 plane tomorrow for the same kids. for at least enough for every if you share it. He think about wiggly is wing so they knew which one has the candy is hundreds of plane land every day. then he went to the Rhien-main base operation store in side of the military base to buy a box full of chocolate also then he put handkerchief to make the candy float in the air.
The Next day same kid were there waiting for the halvorsen to come. when he came they jumped around watching him wiggle his wings and waiting to dropped his candy then he did. When he landed he saw the joy of the kids faces and they were waving at him when he landed.
Now day kids call him the candy bomber,chocolate pilot, also uncle wiggly wings. The candy symbolized hope for the children as a result of dropping the candy.
The Deeds go on
Gail halvorsen brought the joy to western Berlin kids but he did other good actions. He delivered schools in Tirana and Albania such as supplies,toys and candy to the Albanian kids at 1999 also he offered his special gift to victims of Hurricane Katrina in South Mississippi in 2005.