Word: tunner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes streaked across the sunny sky over Berlin, a Soviet officer at the Air Safety Center, charged with keeping track of the Western planes, complained bitterly : "You move around so fast I can't keep my records straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail...
However, after Godin, McInnis' mound staff lacks depth. Hymans and Tunner, a left-hander, saw only limited action last spring. Meears was the leading pitcher on last year's ill-fated freshman squad and did some heroic work, but in general the staff 'lacks deception and control except when Godin is on the mound...
...under savage and provocative Russian pressure in Berlin, the U.S. refused to abandon Europe's helpless peoples. With that decision, the U.S. accepted the risk of war. Major General William H. Tunner's airlift blazed a roaring, dramatic demonstration of U.S. determination across Europe's troubled skies. Not only to Berliners but to the world, the Berlin airlift was the symbol of the year: the U.S. meant business...
...Like a Boid." Tunner's men show little evidence that they know they are engaged in one of the most dramatic military operations in history-and one of the most significant. The atmosphere of the airlift is tense, but not excited. TIME Correspondent Alfred Wright took a typical trip on the airlift on Oct. 1. His report...
...triumph of organization and improvisation that made it possible is what Tunner means by "using airplanes in a manner hitherto unknown." For strategists the airlift has a meaning far beyond its immediate goal of feeding blockaded Berlin. The U.S. Army has never fought a major foreign campaign more than 300 miles from salt water. Suppose it had to fight in the heart of a continent? An airlift like Berlin's might be the answer...