Word: tunner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
When the war began on June 25, Tunner found he had only 60 planes in the Pacific area. He called an emergency meeting of airlines in Washington, asked them for all the four-engine planes they could spare. The lines offered 71 planes. Tunner said he wanted 100 more. When the lines protested that another 100 would cripple domestic air traffic, Tunner withdrew his request-for the time being. Instead he put on more MATS planes, and ordered others out of mothballs...