Master of the Air: William Tunner and the Success of Military Airlift
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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 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 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.
ISBN
978-0817316921
Publication Date
2010
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
City
Tuscaloosa, AL
Keywords
Cold War, USSR, United States, Airlifts, Air Force, Battle Tactics, William Turner
Disciplines
American Politics | European History | International Relations | Military and Veterans Studies | Military History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Slayton, Robert A. Master of the Air: William Tunner and the Success of Military Airlift. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2010.
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1
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University of Alabama Press
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