Airlift honored
RHEIN-MAIN AIR BASE, Germany -- Retired Lt. Col. Gail Halvorsen, the famed "Candy Bomber" of the Berlin Airlift fields questions from reporters here. The colonel -- who has had a 57-year relationship with the airlift base -- attended the base's closing ceremony Oct. 10. The Air Force will turn the base over to the Frankfurt Airport Authority in December, 60 years after operations started here. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. John E. Lasky)
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