Dr. James K. Matthews is the Director of the United States Transportation Command Research Center and serves as Special Staff Assistant to the command's senior staff. In his 17 years of government service, he has worked as a staff historian at Headquarters Strategic Air Command and Headquarters Air Force Communications Command. More recently, he served as the Command Historian for the Military Airlift Command and the United States Transportation Command. He received his doctorate in history in 1981 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Cora J. Holt is the United States Transportati...