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...plane landed, the familiar bony face, the hawk nose, the mustache, the Homburg, were framed in a cabin window. The plane, the President's Independence, rolled to a stop at the Military Air Transport Service terminal in Washington, and the most controversial figure in international politics came down the ramp. It was Christmas week, and the U.S. Secretary of State had flown in a few hours from snowy Brussels into the freezing pre-dawn of Washington. Still standing, in effect, between two continents, he shook hands with a greeter. How was the weather in Europe? "The weather was very...
...Canada-1,000 men, three destroyers, one air transport squadron...
Bottled human blood is one traveler that always has top priority on the Military Air Transport Service planes flying from the U.S. to Korea. There is no time for delay in the shipment of whole blood. Even under the best refrigerated conditions, it goes bad within three weeks, yet a steady supply of it is essential...
...collected by the Red Cross from donors all over the nation and shipped to Travis Air Force Base at Fairfield by air, rail and refrigerated truck. Tested and packed in 20 ice-filled plywood boxes, it was piled less than 14 hours later into the cabin of a MATS transport...
...socks. And within hours after the ist Cavalry Division had run into the Chinese counterattack of last Halloween, the airlift had switched from gas and C rations to ammunition and medical supplies. Sometimes, too, the situation called for a fast switch in reverse. Just before the last transport plane pulled out of Sinanju last week, one of Tunner's men noticed on the airfield 25 loaves of specially baked and blessed Moslem bread, the remnants of four tons flown in to supply the Turkish Brigade. The pilot carefully poured gasoline on the bread and set it afire before...