02629nam 2200601 a 450 991078505750332120230725023653.00-8173-8354-9(CKB)2670000000030201(EBL)547673(OCoLC)648711535(SSID)ssj0000459164(PQKBManifestationID)11295977(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000459164(PQKBWorkID)10460935(PQKB)10475810(MiAaPQ)EBC547673(MdBmJHUP)muse9146(Au-PeEL)EBL547673(CaPaEBR)ebr10408255(EXLCZ)99267000000003020120090805d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMaster of the air William Tunner and the success of military airlift /Robert A. SlaytonTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20101 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1692-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.GeneralsUnited StatesBiographyAirlift, MilitaryUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945BurmaBerlin (Germany)HistoryBlockade, 1948-1949United StatesHistory, Military20th centuryGeneralsAirlift, MilitaryHistoryWorld War, 1939-1945358.40092BSlayton Robert A1537663MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785057503321Master of the air3787083UNINA