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

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Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 291 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. When the western Allies moved to co.
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Subject	Tunner, William H.
	Tunner, William H. -- Military leadership.
	United States. Air Force -- Officers -- Biography.
	United States. Air Force -- Transport service -- History -- 20th century.
	Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) -- History.
	Tunner, William H. (OCoLC)fst00140910
	United States. Air Force. (OCoLC)fst00538280
	Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) (OCoLC)fst00551230
	Blockade of Berlin (Germany : 1948-1949) (OCoLC)fst01352035
	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
	Airlift, Military -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Generals -- United States -- Biography.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Burma.
	Berlin (Germany) -- History -- Blockade, 1948-1949.
	United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.
	Military art and science.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
	HISTORY -- Military -- Aviation.
	Airlift, Military. (OCoLC)fst00802933
	Armed Forces -- Officers. (OCoLC)fst00814617
	Generals. (OCoLC)fst00939841
	Military leadership. (OCoLC)fst01185276
	Burma. (OCoLC)fst01207835
	Germany -- Berlin. (OCoLC)fst01204829
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Military history. (OCoLC)fst01411630
Other Form:	Print version: Slayton, Robert. Master of the Air : William Turner and the Success of Military Airlift. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, ©2010 9780817316921
ISBN	9780817383541 (ebook)

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