Notes
Notes Chapter 1 1. Time, December 18, 1950; Flint DuPre, U.S. Air Force Biographical Dictionary (New York: Franklin Watts, 1965), 239. 2. William Tunner, Over the Hump (1964; repr., Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, 1985), 5. 3. U.S. Air Force Oral History Interview with Lt. Gen. William H. Tunner, October 5–6, 1976, K239.0512-911, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, Ala. (hereinafter referred to as AFHRA), 1. 4. Time, December 18, 1950; Tunner, Over the Hump, 6. 5. Time, December 18, 1950; W. Tunner interview, AFHRA, 2. 6. Time, December 18, 1950; The Howitzer Board, The Howitzer (Rochester: Du Bois Press, 1928), 319. 7. Tunner, Over the Hump, 6. 8. Ibid., 6; W. Tunner interview, AFHRA, 4; William McKinney, “Lieutenant General William H. Tunner, Father of the Military Airlift Command,” Report Number 87-1700, Air Command and Staff College, Air University, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery , Ala., 3. 9. Tunner, Over the Hump, 6; W. Tunner interview, AFHRA, 6–7; DuPre, U.S. Air Force Biographical Dictionary, 239; letter from Curtis LeMay to William Tunner, June 1, 1959, Roll 34909, AFHRA. 10. W. Tunner interview, AFHRA, 7–14; DuPre, U.S. Air Force Biographical Dictionary , 239. 11. W. Tunner interview, AFHRA, 15–16. 12. Tunner, Over the Hump, 17. 13. Lieutenant General Harold George, “History of the AirTransport Command,” 254 / Notes to Pages 7–13 American Airlines, n.d., in the Personal Estate of Harold Sims, 2; Carl Christie with Fred Hatch, Ocean Bridge: The History of RAF Ferry Command (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995). 14. Christie with Hatch, Ocean Bridge, 3. 15. Tunner, Over the Hump, 16. 16. The full text of the letter appears in Tunner, Over the Hump, 18–19. 17. George, “History of the AirTransport Command,” 3; Oliver LaFarge, The Eagle in the Egg: The Story of the Coming of Age of Military Air Transport (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 11. 18. Robin Olds, http://www.af.mil/news/airman/1296/olds.htm, August 31, 2004; Tunner, Over the Hump, 19; W. Tunner interview, AFHRA, 17; telephone interview with Robin Olds, September 1, 2004. 19. Wesley Craven and James Cate, The Army Air Forces inWorldWar II,Vol. Seven: Services Around theWorld (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 9. 20. LaFarge, Eagle in the Egg, 13; Tunner, Over the Hump, 19. 21. Tunner, Over the Hump, 20; Christie with Hatch, Ocean Bridge, 126. 22. W. Tunner interview, AFHRA, 17, 19; telephone interview with Robin Olds, September 1, 2004. 23. Tunner, Over the Hump, 20–21; W. Tunner interview, AFHRA, 19. 24. McKinney, “Lieutenant General William H. Tunner,” 7–8; Craven and Cate, Army Air Forces in World War II: Services, 7–8; George, “History of the Air Transport Command,” 4; Tunner, Over the Hump, 22. 25. Tunner, Over the Hump, 22. 26. The Army Air Corps became the Army Air Forces on June 20, 1941. 27. McKinney, “Lieutenant General William H. Tunner,” 8–9; “Routes of the Air Transport Command.” Roll 34920, AFHRA; LaFarge, Eagle in the Egg, 60–61; Craven and Cate, Army Air Forces inWorld War II: Services, 14. 28. “Airlift/Tanker Association Hall or Fame: Lt. Gen. Harold L. George,” http:// www.atalink.org/hallfame/george.html, September 1, 2004; “Lieutenant General Harold L. George,” http//www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5516, September 1, 2004; Craven and Cate, Army Air Forces inWorldWar II: Services, 12. 29. The account of George’s appointment comes from George, “History of the Air Transport Command,” 6–7. 30. LaFarge, Eagle in the Egg, 51; W. Tunner interview, AFHRA, 23; Tunner, Over the Hump, 28; Memo from J. M. Harper to All Officers Concerned in the Preparation of Messages, July 27, 1942, Roll 34916, AFHRA. 31. Craven and Cate, Army Air Forces in World War II: Services, 19; LaFarge, Eagle in the Egg, 4, 264; Stanley Ulanoff, MATS: The Story of the Military Air Transport Service (New York: Franklin Watts, 1964), 17. 32. Memo from General H. L. George to Commanding Officer, Ferrying Division, February 9, 1943, Roll 34916, AFHRA; unattributed, undated article, “Over Unmarked Jungle and Glacier They Take Planes to Battle Lines,” Roll 34916, AFHRA. 33. Memo on Factories Served by the Ferrying Groups, Roll 34916, AFHRA. Notes to Pages 14–28 / 255 34. Tunner, Over the Hump, 28–29; Robert Sterling, When the AirlinesWent toWar (New York: Kensington Books, 1997), 80. 35. Gene Autry, Back in the Saddle Again (Garden City, N.Y...
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