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Tunner's success with the Ferrying Command brought him a brigadier general's star. In August 1944 he was sent to India to take charge of the A.T.C. airlift which flew "the Hump" between Assam and Kunming in China. The month that Will Tunner took command, the Hump lift carried 23,700 tons of supplies; eleven months later, it moved 69,300 tons. Said Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer, then commander of U.S. forces in China: "Tunner created an epic in air operation...
...green-tinted pages ("easier on the eyes") of the first issue were crammed with puzzles, games ("Make Your Own Secret Code"), color comics ("The Story of America" by Historian David S. Muzzey) and reprints of such children's classics as Kipling's How the Camel Got His Hump and Stevenson's Escape at Bedtime. Like everything sober-minded George Hecht has published, it looked like a nice mixture of his zeal for child welfare-and profits...
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...
...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...
Hardly less striking than the short-term benefits of ACTH are its side effects. Many patients develop a severe acne, mental symptoms, a moon-shaped, swollen face, "buffalo hump," diabetes or hirsutism, i.e., a woman may grow a mustache and beard, but, along with other ill effects, they usually disappear after treatment is stopped...