Word: tunner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annihilated in the process. As it was, even before the crucial crossing was reached, eight spans of a 16-ton bridge had been parachuted down out of the sky to the U.S. troops seemingly isolated in the midst of the enemy. Eight C-119s of Major General William H. Tunner's Combat Cargo Command, each hauling a single span, had carried out the world's first airdrop of a bridge. The retreating column was free to move ahead, vehicles...
...land transport in any major future war. The most extreme advocates of air supply maintained that it was already possible to fly combat forces to any point in the world and keep them supplied. Nobody had argued along these lines more persistently than Combat Cargo Command's General Tunner, who believes that "We can fly anything, anywhere, any time...
...Completely Average." Tunner was born (1906) in Elizabeth, N.J. One of five children, he was, his mother remembers, "a completely average boy" until his last year in high school, when he got steamed up over the idea of going to West Point. He took the competitive exams for the Academy twice, once in Elizabeth and once in New Brunswick, N.J. In Elizabeth he stood first among the applicants, in New Brunswick second...
...Academy Tunner got adequate grades fairly easily, cut his share of capers. There were frequent poker sessions-"He's the world's worst poker player and crap shooter," says his brother-in-law-and there was one glorious weekend in New York when he met four girls from George White's Scandals. Attracted by Tunner's ' strong-jawed, straight-nosed good looks, all four of the girls took to visiting him, in bevy, at West Point, a development which permanently endeared Tunner to his Academy friends...
...West Point Tunner first met his roommate's sister, pretty Margaret Sams. Will fell hard for her, and took her out horseback riding, a sport at which he excelled. Margaret, too, fell hard-off her horse. She went home with a broken leg and a faithful correspondent at West Point. In June 1929, after Tunner had graduated from the Academy and from the Air Corps Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas, he and Margaret were married...