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Contact Info
Home Town Salt Lake City, Utah
Last Address Provo, Utah
Date of Passing Feb 16, 2022
Location of Interment Provo City Cemetery - Provo, Utah
He was a transport pilot in WWII and became famous as "The Candy Bomber" during the Berlin Airlift.
Berlin Airlift (East Gemany)
From Month/Year
June / 1948
To Month/Year
September / 1949
Description Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift (26 June 1948 – 30 September 1949) to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, a difficult feat given the size of the city's population. Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and the South African Air Force flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing to the West Berliners up to 8,893 tons of necessities each day, such as fuel and food. The Soviets did not disrupt the airlift for fear this might lead to open conflict.
By the spring of 1949, the airlift was clearly succeeding, and by April it was delivering more cargo than had previously been transported into the city by rail. On 12 May 1949, the USSR lifted the blockade of West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade served to highlight the competing ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe.
