Word: tunner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army's Provost Marshal General; Lieut. General Roscoe Wilson, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff; the late Major General Robert F. Travis; Lieut. General Francis ("Butch") Griswold, vice chief of SAC; Lieut. General Roger Ramey (ret.), former commander of the Fifth Air Force in Japan; Lieut. General William Tunner, MATS commander; Lieut. General John Gerhart, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Programs; General Henry ("Hank") Everest, commander, Tactical Air Command...
Even such severe critics as Flood agree that MATS is a vital part of the U.S. defense network, readily recall how MATS, under William H. Tunner, then a major general and deputy commander for operations, performed with dramatic efficiency during the Berlin airlift, and in 1956 brought 6,409 Hungarian refugees to the U.S. in a matter of days. Their chief fear is that MATS, now commanded by Lieut. General Tunner. is getting farther and farther away from its combat-carrying function as it steps up military passenger and cargo business, which under established Government policy should go to commercial...
Lieut. General William H. Tunner, 50, European Air Force boss, trading hats with Global Warrior Everest, takes over as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. "Terrible" Tunner, impatient, coldly efficient, has made his biggest mark as a top transport troubleshooter. West Pointer Tunner headed up the wartime Air Transport Command's ferrying division, later brilliantly steered the arduous Burma-China supply shuttle over "the Hump," the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, and the combat air supply in Korea. (A Tunner-made motto: "We can fly anything, anywhere, anytime.") The job of European Air Force boss was Tunner's first...
...your Dec. 18 cover story on Major General Tunner, you say he was sent to India to take charge of the A.T.C. airlift which flew "the Hump," and quote General Wedemeyer: "Tunner created an epic in air operation...
...Tunner came over in August 1944 . . . The Hump was almost whipped-but not quite-by June 1944. There still remained those mythical monsters-of whom all the pilots had heard-that rode the winds of the Himalayas and slammed planes in,to mountains...