Word: 54s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur, 41-members of the small band of World War II pilots who have made good with their airlines. Both won their wings in the Navy, later served in the Air Transport Command, where they saw a bright future for peacetime cargo flying. Starting off with two surplus C-54s in 1947, they quickly built up a fleet of twelve DC-4s and a business of more than $10 million flying across the Pacific during the Korean War (TIME, July...
...Arab world. Something of a miracle then happened: the State Department got the point. At Rhein-Main airport in Wiesbaden, Germany, at Wheelus Field in Tripoli, at Orly Field in Paris, U.S. airmen were suddenly alerted for special duty. Three days later, the first of 13 huge U.S. C-54s landed at Beirut's airport. Next morning Operation Hajj was under...
...York, both learned to fly in the Navy, later served in the Army Transport Command, where they learned enough about cargo flying to be enthusiastic about its future. With $80,000 from relatives and friends, and $200,000 from banks, they started Seaboard in 1946 with two surplus C-54s. Quipped Art Norden: "If you have one plane, you're a pilot; if you have two, you're an airline." In 1947, Seaboard grossed $269,000, made a profit...
...ship scheduled to take the children from Inchon to the island last week failed to arrive. Lieut. Colonel R. L. Blaisdell, chaplain of the Fifth Air Force, telephoned the Combat Cargo Command. Promptly, 15 C-54s loaded with rations for 15 days were dispatched to Kimpo Airport and the children were trucked there from Inchon. They and their 80 attendants, mostly Korean women, were flown off to their island sanctuary...
Only a day after marines had driven the last North Koreans off the field, workhorse C-54s and C-119 "Flying Boxcars" were starting to set down at Kimpo at the rate of one every ten minutes during the daylight hours-almost half the average Berlin airlift rate...