Word: 54s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress was going to have a look at the world it had worried about for the last seven months. Last week, the State Department cranked out passports in wholesale lots, sent couriers flying around to embassies for visas, wired overseas for hotel reservations. The Army checked its C-54s, alerted overseas commanders to stand by for V.I.P.s...
...plane could land closer. Only helicopters could do the trick, and the nearest helicopters were 1,175 miles away in the U.S. At Elizabeth City, N.C., the Army dismantled a helicopter, flew the parts to New York. Another helicopter was waiting at LaGuardia Field. Both were loaded into C-54s and flown to Gander, reassembled...
...each of its C-46s, flew them over central China's great blue lakes to reoccupy Nanking, where Japan's puppets had reigned. It was all done in 22 days. In the same period, the Air Transport Command, loading 80 Chinese into each of its larger C-54s, carried 26,000 men of the Ninety-fourth Army to Shanghai. Soon the Ninety-fourth was on the wing again. This time it was bound for Peiping. At the same time, the Ninety-second Army was flown to Peiping from Hankow...
Next week the Army will blaze another trail. The Air Transport Command will start a weekly round-the-world air service from Washington, D.C., via the Azores, Cairo, India, China, Guam, Honolulu and San Francisco. The globe-girdling will be done in Douglas 40-passenger C-54s, will take 151 hours. Fare for civilian passengers (who must have military certificates of necessity...
...first of a long line of new Army transports (C-46). Ace Designer George A. Page Jr. planned it for huge capacity (50 or more troops, more than 9½ tons of freight), long range, economy-only two super-powerful engines-and safety. With the Douglas C-54s and Lockheed Constellations, C46 will share the job of quickly shifting United Nations men & machines all over the world (TIME, March 2, April 20). The company figures that 21 of these freighters, each making three trips a day, could replace the 4,500 trucks that used to ply the Burma Road...