# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gail-halvorsen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:57:06.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gail-halvorsen"
name: "Gail Halvorsen"
slug: "gail-halvorsen"
description: "Colonel Gail Seymour Halvorsen was a senior officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He rose to fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949, for which he was nicknamed \"Berlin Candy Bomber\" or \"Uncle Wiggly Wings\"."
tagline: "United States Air Force pilot (1920–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gail_Halvorsen_ca._1983.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1920-10-10"
deathDate: "2022-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.324632
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0357158"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://wigglywings.weebly.com/"
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    title: "Gail Halvorsen"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gail Halvorsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Halvorsen"
    title: "Gail Halvorsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Halvorsen"
    title: "Gail Halvorsen"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Halvorsen"
    title: "Gail Halvorsen"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Halvorsen"
    title: "Gail Halvorsen"
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    title: "Gail Halvorsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gail Halvorsen"
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    title: "Гейл Галворсен"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump