Master of the air : William Tunner and the success of military airlift / Robert A. Slayton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slayton, Robert A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generals--United States--Biography.

Generals.

Airlift, Military--United States--History--20th century.

Airlift, Military.

World War, 1939-1945--Burma.

World War, 1939-1945.

Berlin (Germany)--History--Blockade, 1948-1949.

Berlin (Germany).

United States--History, Military--20th century.

United States.

United States. Air Force--Officers--Biography.

United States. Air Force--Transport service--History--20th century.

Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)--History.

Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.).

Tunner, William H.

Tunner, William H--Military leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1948, just as the Cold War was settling into the form it would maintain for nearly half a century, major antagonists the US and the USSR began maneuvering into a series of dangerously hostile encounters. Trouble had broken out in Poland and Czechoslovakia, but it was in Germany, which had been at the heart of World Wars One and Two, that the first potentially explosive confrontation developed. The USSR, which had suffered more at Germany's hands than the rest of the Allies combined, may have viewed developments there with heightened fear and irritability.

Contents:

Getting a mission

Tunner's women pilots

The Hump

Tunner's men

Buildup to destiny

Blockade

A cowboy operation

Black Friday

Solving problems

Finding solutions

Rebellion

The test

Korea

Final battles.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8354-9

OCLC:

648711535