I'm surprised Ford-Fulkerson was published as late as 1956, because surely they were using something similar for the strategic bombing campaign in the 1940s, an

I'm surprised Ford-Fulkerson was published as late as 1956, because surely they were using something similar for the strategic bombing campaign in the 1940s, and on the other front, Kantorovich was using max flows like a madman to keep Leningrad supplied under siege...