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Within hours, a U.S. helicopter landed at Kimpo, carrying high brass, and soon the big airlift transports were coming in (see below), adding more to the 4,000 tons of supplies shoved in by the Navy at Inchon every...
Said Air Force Major General William H. Tunner, a World War II commander of the India-China airlift: "We who worked the Hump always knew that what was done there could be picked up bodily, carried to any part of the world, and started up again." Two years ago, as commander of the Berlin airlift, Tunner carried the Hump operation to Germany. Last week he started it up again at Korea's Kimpo airfield...
Only a day after marines had driven the last North Koreans off the field, workhorse C-54s and C-119 "Flying Boxcars" were starting to set down at Kimpo at the rate of one every ten minutes during the daylight hours-almost half the average Berlin airlift rate...
...first day of the Kimpo airlift Tunner's newly formed Combat Cargo Command delivered 280 air-cargo specialists and 215 tons of supplies-bombs, ammunition, high-octane gasoline, equipment for stepping up the pace of the new job. In its first four days, the Kimpo airlift landed 1,337 tons of supplies and 604 passengers. On return flights it evacuated 313 wounded to Japan...
Grumble & Worry. The 18 months since the airlift victory have slowly tarnished Berlin's shining sense of strength and achievement. The Russians lifted the big blockade, but came back with nagging little ones. They staged nerve-racking blusters, such as last Whitsuntide's giant Red youth rally. They pushed an industrial speed-up and other possible war preparations in East Germany (see cut). Most ominous, they rapidly expanded the 50,000 men in the Bereitschaften, the tank-equipped "alert units" within East Germany's so-called police force that numbered well over...