military. Notable Hump airlift participants Maj. Gen. Barry Goldwater, Pilot and flight instructor, later US Senator and presidential nominee Col. Harry L. "Red" Clark (former Eastern area flight manager for American Airlines and vice president-flight for Seaboard World Airlines), commanding officer 1st Ferrying Group Col. Robert L. Scott, Jr., pilot and commanding officer Col. Merian C. Cooper (movie producer), liaison officer Col. James H. Douglas, Jr. (Secretary of the Air Force), ATC staff member Lt. Col. Robert S. McNamara (corporate executive, Secretary of Defense), scheduling analyst for "Reverse Hump" operation Lt. Col. Thomas Watson Jr. (corporate executive, CEO of IBM, ambassador to Soviet Union) Lt. Col. Reserves Erik Meidell Jr. (Berlin Airlift pilot, as United Airlines pilot flew King Olav V of Norway in his 1969 state visit to the United States), C-46 pilot Lt. Col. Lloyd H. Aronson, Pilot. Saved a Chinese girl from pneumonia after his plane was forced to crash land in western China. (Scott, Col. Robert. God Is My Co-Pilot. Second Special Printing, Ballantine Books, 1976. Page 149.) Later would fly the Berlin airlift and work for NASA. Maj. Floyd Shaw "Buckley" Benjamin Jr. (Pilot TE(1051) & 4E(1024) (P); B-24, B-25, C-47, C-54.), 1596th (2nd Foreign Trans Gp) (Ferrying Div, ATC) New Castle Army Air Field, Wilmington, Del. Maj. Arthur Chin, Chinese-American fighter ace, one of the original volunteer pilots to join war against Imperial Japan Maj. Ernest K. Gann (author), C-87 instructor pilot Capt. Jack Narz , C-46 pilot Capt. Walter G. Hughen, noted civilian AA commercial pilot recruited as commander in the earliest stages of the operation Capt. Larry Clinton (band leader), flight instructor 1343rd Base Unit Capt. Richard E. Cole (Doolittle Raider), 6th Ferrying Squadron (1st Ferrying Group) pilot Lt. Ralph Knudtsen, (CA Steel Industrialist) C-47 pilot, commanding officer, Purple Heart recipient, over 300 missions and shot down in Burma, wound to the head; Capt. Edgar E. McElroy (Doolittle Raider), C-47 pilot Captain Frank Kingdon-Ward (botanist), British soldier recruited to locate crash sites Captain Lawrence D. Edmonson (psychologist, lifetime private pilot until age 88), C-46/C-47 pilot Lt. Jerry Disharoon (USAF Colonel), C-46/C-47 pilot 2d Lt. Theodore F. Stevens (U.S. senator), C-47/C-46 pilot 2d Lt. George Olesen (cartoonist), B-24 pilot 7th Bomb Group Lt. Beryl Clark (NFL player), C-109 pilot 1347th Base Unit Lt. Bruce Sundlun (Rhode Island governor), C-54 pilot F/O. Gene Autry (television and movie star), C-109 pilot F/O Vernon Martin (NFL