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When the Defense Department created the Military Air Transport Service eight years ago, the Pentagon concluded hopefully that a consolidated airlift arm would end interservice transport duplication once and for all. It was a hollow hope, soon reverberating with echoes of Navy "logistic" transports and the Air Force's own private transports independently zooming off in all directions...
...present MATS aircraft strength from 534 to 717. New planes will come from the Navy (67) and three heavy troop-carrier wings (some 100 Globemaster null from the Air Force's Tactical Air Command. Thus MATS, whose M-day job hitherto was designed to support TAC and other airlift facilities, will now have the capacity to drop troops directly on target, as well as the job of performing peacetime transport duties...
...REFUGEE AIRLIFT is giving nonscheduled airlines biggest boom since Korean war. CAB has issued nonskeds 29 permits for refugee flights, will soon approve 24 more. Every usable overwater craft will be pressed into service. So great is need that asking price for used DC-4s has jumped from $550,000 apiece...
...Reuben Robertson, as he explained the Wilson memo to newsmen. Army aviation is strictly limited to such functions as liaison and observation within a combat zone extending not more than 100 miles beyond the front lines, and the Army is specifically forbidden to provide its own strategic and tactical airlift, tactical reconnaissance or close-combat air support. More important, the Army is restricted to a 200-mile range in its surface-to-surface missiles (on the theory that they could be launched 100 miles behind the lines and travel 100 miles beyond). Gone, therefore, was the dream of longer-range...
...Force. Handed to the Air Force was almost everything that the Army had wanted: responsibility for tactical air support as well as strategic bombing; tactical and strategic airlift; all land-based missiles with ranges of more than 200 miles; area defense with missiles ranging more than 100 miles, to be integrated by the continent-girdling SAGE (SemiAutomatic Ground Environment) early-warning system. But in anticipation of an increase in the firepower of the Army's short-range tactical missiles (taking over part of the tactical air-support job), Wilson called for a cutback in the Air Force goal...