Master of the air : William Tunner and the success of military airlift /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2010.
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| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=420072 |
Table of 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.