Gail Halvorsen's Piloting Career
Intro
Have you ever wished that candy will fall out the sky? This happened to a group of german kids in 1948 on the other side of the berlin wall. gail halvorsen made these german kids happy and he symbolized hope for the children. Halvorsen thinked that, “what then of the future? I think you will agree with me that our children are our future. not just our children, but everyone's children” said Halvorsen
Gail Halvorsen’s Piloting Career
Gail Halvorsen grew up on an small farm in Garland, Utah 20 miles south from Idaho. Subsequently, Halvorsen attend Bear River high school in Tremonton. After high school, he finished non-college pilot training program at a ground school in Oregon, during september 1941. In May 1942 ,the spring after Pearl harbor, he joined the U.S Army Air Corps. As he explained to reporters, he just wanted to fly, Because of the large amount of fighter pilots in Army Air Corps that were hired that time, this which convinced him that royal air force didn’t need pilots, so Halvorsen was assigned as a transport pilot to deliver supplies to many part of the world in his c54: South America, Europe, and Africa.He was later on ordered to , Gail Halvorsen was a child of the depression, and he felt what berlin was going through. …show more content…
It was time of the cold war. Germany was divided by the berlin wall because the western part was influenced by soviet union and the eastern part was under the United States influence. When soviet union stop supplying western part of Germany with food and life supplies, Amercia decided to help people that lived there. That how the berlin airlift idea was born. the supplies were delivered by airplane without landing on the enemies by dropping goods from the sky. This operation continued for more than a year. Western Germany received more than 2.3 million tons of goods of coal, milk, dried potatoes, dried
Have you ever wished that candy will fall out the sky? This happened to a group of german kids in 1948 on the other side of the berlin wall. gail halvorsen made these german kids happy and he symbolized hope for the children. Halvorsen thinked that, “what then of the future? I think you will agree with me that our children are our future. not just our children, but everyone's children” said Halvorsen
Gail Halvorsen’s Piloting Career
Gail Halvorsen grew up on an small farm in Garland, Utah 20 miles south from Idaho. Subsequently, Halvorsen attend Bear River high school in Tremonton. After high school, he finished non-college pilot training program at a ground school in Oregon, during september 1941. In May 1942 ,the spring after Pearl harbor, he joined the U.S Army Air Corps. As he explained to reporters, he just wanted to fly, Because of the large amount of fighter pilots in Army Air Corps that were hired that time, this which convinced him that royal air force didn’t need pilots, so Halvorsen was assigned as a transport pilot to deliver supplies to many part of the world in his c54: South America, Europe, and Africa.He was later on ordered to , Gail Halvorsen was a child of the depression, and he felt what berlin was going through. …show more content…
It was time of the cold war. Germany was divided by the berlin wall because the western part was influenced by soviet union and the eastern part was under the United States influence. When soviet union stop supplying western part of Germany with food and life supplies, Amercia decided to help people that lived there. That how the berlin airlift idea was born. the supplies were delivered by airplane without landing on the enemies by dropping goods from the sky. This operation continued for more than a year. Western Germany received more than 2.3 million tons of goods of coal, milk, dried potatoes, dried