This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
The Salt Lake Tribune occasionally presents images from its archives in a special series called A Look Back. This installment shows the Berlin airlift and focuses on Lt. Gail S. Halvorsen, an airlift pilot from Garland, Utah, who became popular with German children because he has made it a practice to drop candy on each of his flights delivering other supplies to blockaded Berlin.
Every gallery of the series is available at www.sltrib.com/topics/lookback. Previous installments showed:
Salt Lake City's trolley system • http://bit.ly/zOaJNh
The Salt Lake Tribune through the years • http://bit.ly/xx9Npt
Recreation along the Great Salt Lake • http://bit.ly/xWqlY6
Utah's small towns • http://bit.ly/w971Oi
Park City • http://bit.ly/yhcPsx
Scenes from around Utah in the first half of the 20th century • http://bit.ly/zhYh3V
Construction of the Salt Lake Temple and SLC in the 1800s • http://bit.ly/wC64sn
Past University of Utah football bowl games • http://bit.ly/yZmonI
Scenic Utah photos from the 1930s-1960s • http://bit.ly/s23YcC
Bands in Utah from 1870-1927 • http://bit.ly/vYZTfu
Utahns in the armed forces during World War II • http://bit.ly/ud24Kt
The Hill Climbing Automobile Contest, a 1907 Salt Lake City car race • http://bit.ly/vCGkzz
Brighton in the 1930s and 1940s • http://bit.ly/sqzAGx
Saltair • http://bit.ly/rLAGUG
Utahns in the military from the '40s and '50s • http://bit.ly/tjX9Zn
Salt Lake City's baseball park in the 1930s and 1940s • http://bit.ly/rtrkih
Utah college life from the 1930s to 1960s • http://bit.ly/rKskme
Key moments in Utah Jazz history • http://bit.ly/pErnml
Historical buildings in Salt Lake City • http://bit.ly/ntHZcl
Dugway Chemical Warfare Depot during World War II • http://bit.ly/oMfO57
Kennecott Utah Copper Mine in the 1930s and 1940s • http://bit.ly/qwqapW
The Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and 1940s • http://bit.ly/ob9taQ
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks • http://bit.ly/q561uw
Salt Lake City's Memory Grove Park • http://bit.ly/pJduHw
Hill Air Force Base in the 1940s and 1950s • http://bit.ly/oKwZiO
Women's fashion from 1949-50 • http://bit.ly/qyizm9
Salt Lake City in the 1900s • http://bit.ly/n8LwlY
Salt Lake City and other Utah cities in the 1800s • http://bit.ly/pWOlBH
Images from court actions against polygamous men in the 1940s • http://bit.ly/oMgRlu
The centennial Days of '47 parade in downtown Salt Lake City from July 1947 • http://bit.ly/nKcYLJ
Mining town of Mercur, Utah • http://bit.ly/qApcTy
NASA history • http://bit.ly/oCO1RR
Vintage aircraft from around Utah • http://bit.ly/irhYBd
Stereoscopic images of Eureka, Utah, in the early 1900s • http://bit.ly/jF02nD
Salt Lake City's Liberty Park from 1935 to 1951 • http://bit.ly/kkKQc6
Historical images of the 100-year-old Hotel Utah, currently The Joseph Smith Memorial Building • http://bit.ly/mI7JB8
People and events in Salt Lake City from the 1930s, '40s and '50s • http://bit.ly/kAUB9j
Historical images of Sugar House • http://bit.ly/jHQhnX
Aerial images of Salt Lake City in the 1960s • http://bit.ly/iRGaoN