Word: points
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Most U.S. military men agreed that greater reliance on direct air supply would be a vital supplement to sea and 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...
...Completely Average." Tunner was born (1906) in Elizabeth, N.J. One of five children, he was, his mother remembers, "a completely average boy" until his last year in high school, when he got steamed up over the idea of going to West Point. He took the competitive exams for the Academy twice, once in Elizabeth and once in New Brunswick, N.J. In Elizabeth he stood first among the applicants, in New Brunswick second...
...brother-in-law-and there was one glorious weekend in New York when he met four girls from George White's Scandals. Attracted by Tunner's ' strong-jawed, straight-nosed good looks, all four of the girls took to visiting him, in bevy, at West Point, a development which permanently endeared Tunner to his Academy friends...
...West Point Tunner first met his roommate's sister, pretty Margaret Sams. Will fell hard for her, and took her out horseback riding, a sport at which he excelled. Margaret, too, fell hard-off her horse. She went home with a broken leg and a faithful correspondent at West Point. In June 1929, after Tunner had graduated from the Academy and from the Air Corps Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas, he and Margaret were married...
...Willie the Whip." Thirteen years after his graduation from West Point came the assignment that determined the shape of Tunner's Air Force career. In June 1941 he was named personnel officer of the newly formed Air Corps Ferrying Command and promptly began to eat and sleep air transport. Within a year he was a colonel and had command of the Air Transport Command's Ferrying Wing, charged with delivering aircraft to U.S. and allied forces in every theater...