Airlift !
The Story of the Military Airlift Command
Thum, Marcella - Thum Gladys
"You call, we haul." Ever since the Military Airlift Command s beginning in 1941 as the Air Corps Ferrying Command, MAC has been doing just that—airlifting everything from troops to missiles to a whale.
The Military Airlift Command operates in wartime under battle conditions. Yet seeking out the eye of a hurricane, airdropping food and supplies for disaster victims, air-evacuating wounded, taking the President where he wants to go on Air Force One are only a few of its other responsibilities. MAC has been called "the biggest, busiest, most far-ranging aerial cargo carrier in the world."
MAC'S dramatic, little-known story is told here in text and photographs. Also featured are MAC'S legendary transports, from the ever-reliable C-47 Gooney Bird to the C-5 Galaxy, the largest aircraft in the world.
Hardcover with dust jacket
143 Seiten / pages
Illustrated with photographs
Ex - Library copy with corresponding markings, besides that a good copy.
New York - 1986 - Dodd, Mead & Company
Art.Nr. 4398
