MILITARY PERSONNEL

Gail Halvorsen

1920 - 2022

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Colonel Gail Seymour "The Candy Bomber" Halvorsen (October 10, 1920 – February 16, 2022) was a senior officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings" and gained fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949. Halvorsen grew up in rural Utah and always had a desire to fly. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gail Halvorsen has received more than 913,149 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gail Halvorsen is the 1,926th most popular military personnel, the 9,490th most popular biography from United States and the 162nd most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gail Halvorsen ranks 1,926 out of 2,058. Before him are Hemedti, Suheil al-Hassan, Albert Agarunov, William Hood Simpson, Bipin Rawat, and John Schofield. After him are Arnold Jackson, Thomas C. Hart, George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, Oleg Mityaev, Hubert Gough, and Abu Omar al-Shishani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Gail Halvorsen ranks 392. Before him are Alberto Calderón, Kelpo Gröndahl, Hemanta Mukherjee, Aleksandar Atanacković, G. D. Spradlin, and Jose Tomas Sanchez. After him are Jean Dutourd, Michael Bates, Elmo Zumwalt, Irmgard Praetz, Aldo Ghira, and Philippa Pearce. Among people deceased in 2022, Gail Halvorsen ranks 512. Before him are Walter Abish, Amos Sawyer, Sture Allén, David Ray Griffin, Géza Csapó, and Anita Gradin. After him are Zbigniew Namysłowski, Jeroen Brouwers, D. H. Peligro, Oleg Mityaev, Albert Pyun, and Ingemar Erlandsson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gail Halvorsen ranks 9,490 out of 20,380. Before him are Don Williams (1939), Fredric Lehne (1959), Paul Motian (1931), Gary Johnson (1953), William Inge (1913), and Jay Park (1987). After him are Richard Cheese (1965), Lex Luger (1958), Amy Yasbeck (1962), Robert Farnan (1877), Hugh Wilson (1943), and Florence B. Seibert (1897).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Gail Halvorsen ranks 162. Before him are William Rosecrans (1819), John C. Pemberton (1814), Joseph Dunford (1955), James Wilkinson (1757), William Hood Simpson (1888), and John Schofield (1831). After him are Thomas C. Hart (1877), John Sullivan (1740), Elmo Zumwalt (1920), Lewis H. Brereton (1890), John Sedgwick (1813), and Zebulon Pike (1779).

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