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...point still to be settled: the Eighteenth's commander. The airborne's greatest fear is that the job may go to an Air Force general who would insist on treating an airborne operation like an airlift, shuttling planeloads of men and equipment to an airhead on a commuter-train timetable. Airborne officers insist that the intricate job of establishing an airhead in enemy territory requires newer techniques-which must still be developed. Their candidate for the command: Major General Robert W. Douglass, former chief of staff of Air Forces in Europe...
...your Dec. 18 cover story on Major General Tunner, you say he was sent to India to take charge of the A.T.C. airlift which flew "the Hump," and quote General Wedemeyer: "Tunner created an epic in air operation...
Here are some specific examples of how the passive U.S. attitude paralyzes policy: Item: The Berlin airlift was a heaven-sent situation of strength. The U.S. accepted the gratitude and enthusiasm of the Germans, made no real effort to develop these into permanent assets. The airlift has become in German minds just a sentimental folk memory, like Santa Claus. Everybody is in favor of Santa Claus, but how many divisions can he raise? Item: Marshall Plan aid to France (as to other countries) created a magnificent situation of strength. The passivists stood back and admired it, a monument of American...
...idea had not been his; it had originated in a resolution presented by Senator Arthur Vandenberg, approved by a Republican Senate in the 80th Congress by a 64-to-4 vote. But Acheson had earnestly carried it through. He saw the Russians, outsmarted by the allies' great airlift, give up the Berlin blockade...
...week, the last units of the X Corps column reached Hamhung after a skillful fighting retreat from the Changjin reservoir to the Sea of Japan. Some of the survivors wore colored silk scarves and hoods made from the parachutes of Major General William H. Tunner's life-saving airlift. Some of the marine dead were buried in a cemetery at Hamhung, under mounds of raw red clay topped by white crosses. The marine commander, Major General Oliver P. Smith, uttered a brief and moving tribute, chaplains of three faiths said prayers, a rifle salute rang out, a bugler sounded...