AIR WAR: The Hump to Kimpo

Said Air Force Major General William H. Tunner, a World War II commander of the India-China airlift: "We who worked the Hump always knew that what was done there could be picked up bodily, carried to any part of the world, and started up again." Two years ago, as commander of the Berlin airlift, Tunner carried the Hump operation to Germany. Last week he started it up again at Korea's Kimpo airfield.

Only a day after marines had driven the last North Koreans off the field, workhorse C-54s and C-119 "Flying Boxcars" were starting to set down at Kimpo at...