Master of the Air: William Turner and the Success of Military Airlift - Hardcover

Slayton, Robert A.

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ISBN 10: 0817316922 ISBN 13: 9780817316921

Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, 2010

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Book by Slayton Professor Robert A

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"Tunner is perhaps the most important single individual in the history of the development of military air transport. Slayton provides the first complete biography and it has some original insights, such as the connection he explores between Tunner, the Berlin Airlift, and the Stalingrad airlift." - Roger G. Miller, director of the USAF Contract History Program and author of Billy Mitchell: Storm Petrel of the Air and To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949"

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In 1948, just as the Cold War was settling into the form it would maintain for nearly half a century, major antagonists the United States and Russia 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 consolidate their areas of control in occupied Germany, the USSR responded by cutting off land access to West Berlin, holding over two million residents of that city hostage in an aggressive act of brinkmanship. Into this difficult situation the Americans placed General William Henry Tunner. He was given a task that seemed doomed to failure - to supply a major city by air with everything it needed to survive from food to a winter's supply of coal - and made it a brilliant success, astonishing the world in a major public relations defeat for the Soviets, and demonstrating the unexpected capacity of air fleets in a postwar world.

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• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0817316922
• ISBN 13: 9780817316921
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 291