Retired COL Gail S. Halvorsen displays a parachute similar to the ones he used during the Berlin Airlift, when he acquired the nickname of the "Rosinen (raisin) Bomber" for his practice of dropping candy to children who were lined up to watch aircraft landing at Tempelhof, West Berlin, 6/23/1988.

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