It’s a sweet story that doesn’t grow old, and the same might be said about the man telling it. Gail S. “Hal” Halvorsen needs no prodding to talk about something he’s been talking about for 72 years. Relaxing in the shade of an apple tree in the backyard of the house he built in 1974 when he retired from the U.S. Air Force and returned to Utah, he enthusiastically launches into a retelling of the time he was called on the carpet by his commanding officer in the summer of 1948. He had just returned to his airbase after flying...