One of the parachutes with Hershey's chocolate was encased for display. (AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
- One of the parachutes with Hershey's chocolate was encased for display. (AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
- Retired Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen was nicknamed "Chocolate Pilot," "Candy Bomber" and "Uncle Wiggly Wings" when he dropped Hershey's chocolate-laden parachutes for children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948-1949. (AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
- A troop carrier Douglas C-54 Skymaster, named "Candy Bomber," is on display on the disused airport Tempelhof in Berlin, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the end of the air lift. (AP/Gero Breloer)
- Spectators watch Gail Halvorsen, veteran of the Berlin Air Lift, dropping candies as symbolic 'CARE-Packets' from a DC-3 airplane, also named "Candy Bomber," over the disused Tempelhof airport in Berlin. (AP/Gero Breloer)
- Candies are dropped as symbolic 'CARE-Packets' from a DC-3 airplane. (AP/Gero Breloer)
- Veterans of the Berlin Air Lift in front of a DC-3 airplane, with a symbolic 'CARE-Packet' in Berlin. The letters "Rosinenbomber" on the plane are the German word for "Candy Bomber." (AP/Markus Schreiber)
- A troop carrier Douglas C-54 Skymaster, also nicknamed "Candy Bomber," is on display on the disused airport Tempelhof in Berlin. (AP/Markus Schreiber)
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