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Civil Sniping. No one is more acutely aware of MATS' problems than MATS' boss, Lieut. General William H. Tunner, 53, who commanded the historic airlifts over the Hump in World War II and to Berlin and Korea. Most of Tunner's 483 planes are obsolescent relics of the propeller age. The bulk of them-291 cargo-carrying C124 Globemasters and 163 troop-lifting C-118s and C121 Super Constellations-are seven to twelve years old, are so short-ranged that they rely on vulnerable island refueling stops on long hops. If Wake Island, Kwajalein and Eniwetok were...
What Bill Tunner wants is a fleet of swing-tailed jet aircraft that could lift fighting troops or 20 tons of freight nonstop over 4,000 miles. With a new type of big turboprop cargo plane that MATS wants to develop, Tunner says he could haul for 4? to 5? per ton-mile what now costs 23? on the C124 Globemasters. But MATS is in the sniping sights of the civil airlines, which last year got $85 million worth of business from MATS. (The total military business with the airlines last year, including movements of military people under travel orders...
...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...