US Air Force, pp. 68, 71, 72, 73, 75, 77, 78, 79, 82, 84–85
Biographical Note
US Army, p. 89; Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation, p. 91; US Air Force, p. 92
Historical Note
US Air Force or US Army, p. 96
All other photographs, letters, and documents courtesy of Gail S. Halvorsen
Index
A
Air Tanker Association Hall of Fame, 93
Albania, 92
American Confectioners
Association, 46
B
Berlin, division of, 4–7, 97–99
Berlin Airlift anniversaries of, 77, 84, 89, 90, 94
casualties of, 70, 72
diagram of, 8–9
end of, 70–73
Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation, 90, 91
Berlin Candy Bomber, The, 102
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 90
Brandenburg Gate, 96
Brookley Air Force Base, 69
Brunger, Trugard, 63
C
Camp Hope, 92
Caskey, Larry, 69, 70
Center for Operation Little Vittles, 43, 44, 91
Cheney Award, 75
Chicopee, Massachusetts, 43, 44, 91
Chopp, Timothy, 91
coal, 2, 3, 29
Cold War, 98
Communism, 6, 19
Connors, Mary, 44
D
Doublemint gum, 21
Douglas C-47 Skytrain, 11, 77, 87
Douglas C-54 Skymaster, i, x, 11, 13–15, 22, 26, 27, 29, 52, 57, 82, 83, 86, 90, 91, 93
E
Elkins, Herschel C., 27, 28
F
flour, viii, 2, 15, 18, 27, 46
G
Gail S. Halvorsen Elementary School, 88
Garland, Utah, 40, 87, 88
Gatow Airfield, 7, 8–9, 11, 29
German Youth Association, 46, 47
Gibson, James, 39
H
Halvorsen, Alta Jolley, 74, 75
Halvorsen, Gail S. gifts sent to, 64–67
letters sent to, vi, 31, 32, 35, 36, 42, 45, 49, 50, 51–64, 76
photographs of, vi, viii, 10, 20, 23, 28, 30, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 49, 52, 65, 68, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 82, 86, 88, 89, 91, 92, 100, 103, 108
Halvorsen Loader, 93
Haun, James R., 32
Havel River, 7
Hershey bars, 26, 42, 67
Hitler, Adolf, 13, 95, 97
Hurricane Katrina, 94
J
Jantzen, Mae and Ernie, 74–76
K
Kosovo, 92
L
Life Savers, 45
M
Marshall Plan, 97
Meisner, Manfred and Klaus, 67
Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot, 102
Micronesian Islands, 93
milk, 2, 63
Mir, 90
Müller, Helga, 61
Muss, Elly, 62
N
NASA, 90
Non-commissioned Officers’ Wives Club, 49
O
Officers’ Wives Club, 49
Operation Little Vittles, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 62, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 78, 79, 87, 91, 94, 101, 104
donations to, 37, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49
US headquarters of, 43, 44, 91
Operation Plainfare, 7
Operation Provide Promise, 90
Operation Vittles, 11, 79, 94, 101
Oppermann, Irene, 66, 67
P
Paris bubble gum, 37
Petri, Peter, 56
Pickering, John H., 28
R
Raven, Margot Theis, 101
Reichstag, 4, 12, 23, 67, 99
Rhein-Main Air Force Base, 8–9, 10, 11, 26, 32, 42, 49, 52, 69, 86, 88, 94
Rickowski, Klaus, 56
Royal Air Force (RAF), 7, 70
S
Schuffelhauer, Gertraud and Brigitte, 61
Serbia, 90, 92
Simon, Mercedes, 1–3, 56, 57, 80–83, 89
Soviet Union, 4–7, 18, 19, 36, 70, 95–99
Spirit of Freedom, 90, 91, 93
Sunderlands, 7
Swersey, John, 46
Symington, Stewart, 75
T
Tegel Airfield, 11
Tempelhof Central Airport, viii, x, 2, 8–9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20, 26, 28, 31, 34, 35, 36, 56, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 76, 78, 79, 80, 88, 92
Tscherner, Inge, 61
Tunner, William H., 32, 44
U
US Air Force (USAF), 1–2, 11, 13, 32, 36, 41, 69, 70, 72, 78, 89, 92, 101
V
Vandenberg Air Force Base, 76
Vandenberg, Hoyt, 75
W
Weekly Reader, 42
Westover Air Force Base, 91
Wild, Peter, 82
Williams, Eugene T. “Willy,” 68–71
Winter Olympic Games, 83
World War I, 97
World War II, 1, 2, 4, 5, 95–97
Z
Zimmerman, Peter, 1–3, 51–55, 56
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