Sweet Gratitude: Candy Bomber rededicates Frankfurt's Berlin Airlift Memorial

U.S. Air Force Col. Timothy Stretch, U.S. Air Forces Europe representative on behalf of the commander, shakes the hand of retired U.S. Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen, also known as the Candy Bomber, during the reopening ceremony of the Berlin Airlift Memorial outside Frankfurt International Airport, Germany, Nov. 22, 2016. Halvorsen and his fellow Airmen dropped 23 tons of candy with makeshift parachutes from his C-54 Skymaster as part of the humanitarian supply mission, which delivered more than two million tons of food to the blockaded citizens of West Berlin between June 1948 and October 1949. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joe W. McFadden)

PHOTO BY: U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Joe W. McFadden
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