| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 291 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Getting a mission -- Tunner's women pilots -- The Hump -- Tunner's men -- Buildup to destiny -- Blockade -- A cowboy operation -- Black Friday -- Solving problems -- Finding solutions -- Rebellion -- The test -- Korea -- Final battles. |
| Summary |
In 1948, just as the Cold War was settling into the form it would maintain for nearly half a century, major antagonists the US and the USSR began maneuvering into a series of dangerously hostile encounters. Trouble had broken out in Poland and Czechoslovakia, but it was in Germany, which had been at the heart of World Wars One and Two, that the first potentially explosive confrontation developed. The USSR, which had suffered more at Germany's hands than the rest of the Allies combined, may have viewed developments there with heightened fear and irritability. When the western Allies moved to co. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tunner, William H.
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Tunner, William H. |
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Tunner, William H. -- Military leadership.
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Command of troops. |
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United States. Air Force -- Officers -- Biography.
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United States. Air Force. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
United States. Air Force -- Transport service -- History -- 20th century.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) -- History.
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Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) |
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Blockade of Berlin (Berlin, Germany : 1948-1949) |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Airlift, Military -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Airlift, Military. |
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United States. |
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Generals -- United States -- Biography.
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Generals. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Burma.
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Berlin (Germany) -- History -- Blockade, 1948-1949.
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United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.
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History, Military. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Military history.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Slayton, Robert. Master of the Air : William Turner and the Success of Military Airlift. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, ©2010 9780817316921 |
| ISBN |
9780817383541 |
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0817383549 |
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9780817316921 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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0817316922 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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