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...some aspects of Bataan, some of Anzio, some of Dunkirk, some of Valley Forge, some of the "Retreat of the 10,000" (401-400 B.C.) as described in Xenophon's Anabasis. The retreat of the 20,000 in Korea would not have been possible without General Tunner's ultramodern airlift, which supplied them with all the ammunition and food they could use, and even with bridging equipment (see below...
...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...
...first day of the Kimpo airlift Tunner's newly formed Combat Cargo Command delivered 280 air-cargo specialists and 215 tons of supplies-bombs, ammunition, high-octane gasoline, equipment for stepping up the pace of the new job. In its first four days, the Kimpo airlift landed 1,337 tons of supplies and 604 passengers. On return flights it evacuated 313 wounded to Japan...
...week's end Tunner's men had installed landing lights and Ground Controlled Approach equipment at Kimpo. Soon they hoped to increase the landing rate to one plane every six minutes around the clock. The speed-up wouldn't stop there. "The trouble with airplanes," says hard-driving General Tunner, "is that they spend altogether too much time on the ground...