Korean Airlift

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The Korean Airlift was a military operation during the Korean War by the United States Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, and other air forces participating in the United Nations action.{{Cite book |last=Services |first=United States Congress House Committee on Armed |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aHILGUj3-sEC |title=Military Airlift: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Military Airlift of the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, First and Second Sessions |date=1966 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=6931, 6939 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C04zANFFmzgC |title=Airlift Tanker: History of U.S. Airlift and Tanker Forces |date=1995 |publisher=Turner Publishing Company |isbn=978-1-56311-125-9 |pages=20 |language=en}} Beginning in 1950 under the command of Major General William H. Tunner, it provided air support to the war in Korea.

The Airlift provided such things as:

• landing and dropping supplies
• troop transport
• paratroop operations
• psychological operations
• medivac and air rescues