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...field, soldiers sweated to load planes which had flown in earlier with evacuees, and send them winging back to Tokyo. This is the Pacific airlift. Every day it flies some 100 tons of men and vitally needed munitions, medicines, etc. from Fairfield-Suisun, Tacoma and San Jose to Tokyo to support the Korean fighting. Every week its 53 commercial liners and 98 Military Air Transport Service planes fly a quarter of the way around the world and back, carrying more ton-miles of cargo than all the U.S. domestic airlines combined...
Emergency Meeting. The seven-week-old Pacific lift is a miracle of improvisation. The man who did most to make the miracle is MATS' deputy operations commander, Major General William H. Tunner, who bossed the 1948 Berlin airlift and was a wartime director of the hazardous air shuttle over the Hump...
...keep the airlift going, some U.S. airlines have slashed their domestic freight business. Eastern Air Lines has abandoned its cargo-liner service, now carries its freight in passenger planes and in pods attached to Constellations. Capital Airlines has "skeletonized" its camp service. American Airlines has dropped four cities off its cargo routes. Other lines are getting by with makeshift schedules, but these will not hold up if MATS decides it needs more planes on the Pacific lift. This week, General Tunner plans to make a flying inspection of the lift, and a firsthand estimate of its future needs...
...practice which the Army discarded but recently resumed. This year they rehearsed an amphibious demonstration, "Operation Demon III," for the Army's Command & General Staff College. One of the 1st's companies ran off a cold-weather landing exercise in Alaska; a regiment put on an airlift assault on cactus-covered San Nicolas Island off the California coast. If & when the time comes for the U.S. units to break out of the beachhead in Korea, Craig's great store of amphibious know-how will come in handy for assault landings behind the North Korean lines...
...Lift. Romance, heavy-handed propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME...