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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