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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Tác giả chính: Slayton, Robert A.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
Loạt:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=420072
Mục lục:
  • 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.