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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...
...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...
...Inchon landing, the capture of Seoul and the consequent collapse of the North Korean army. In North Korea, he tried what he called a "massive compression envelopment" against greatly superior forces. He undoubtedly underestimated the size and the quality of the Chinese troops. Their lack of tanks, artillery and transport looked like fatal weakness to exponents of current U.S. military doctrines. Specifically, MacArthur overestimated the effect of his air power on the Chinese troops...
...fought as the other warlords fought. Though they all double-crossed and intrigued, they also observed certain amenities. They disliked to take each other prisoner, settled battles with silver bullets (.i.e., cash bribes), often left one city gate open for retreat when they had surrounded a rival, even provided transport for the defeated general's belongings (they hoped for a return of the courtesy in reversed circumstances), considered it boorish to attack in bad weather. Mao fought for keeps...
Scandinavian, Benelux and other Continental delegates gradually shifted to the British point of view, declined to support a federated "little Europe" (i.e., without Britain). In voting last week for specialized agencies, the Consultative Assembly recommended that work begin at once to seek intergovernmental agreement in transport and agriculture...