Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never mind that," said MacWilliams. "What's my load...
...MacWilliams walked up to his silver twin-engine C-46-one of seven being readied for take-off-and rubbed his finger on its heavy underbelly. "Frost," he said. He called for a crew of men with long-handled mops to swash off the wings with antifreeze. "With this load," said MacWilliams, "we need every bit of lift we can get." He climbed into the plane, checked the guy ropes holding the huge burlap rice sacks, moved on to the cockpit and, with the help of his Chinese copilot, got his engines sputtering, then roaring. The plane took...
...Suchow, MacWilliams eased his plane into position beside a string of C-46s. A truck pulled up to his plane to unload the rice; his return load of soldiers was already waiting to board the plane. MacWilliams joined a group of American pilots beside one of the planes. As they talked the thump of artillery and aerial bombs was audible in the distance...
...four hours for gasoline. He ate a meal of rice and meat stew scooped out of a big pot in the chow tent, and at regular intervals argued with the ground crewmen to get going on gassing. By noon he was on his way back to Suchow with another load of rice...
After MacWilliams' rice load had been shoved out on to the ground, supply troops and a group of Chinese army wives began clambering aboard his plane. The manifest for this trip listed a load of 36 pieces of baggage and 36 soldiers. Forcing his way into the packed cabin, he counted 126 crates, bundles and gunnysacks, and 69 people. MacWilliams shouted for the commanding officer and forced him to toss off half the luggage and cut the number of people to 50. "I'm still 5,000 pounds over," he said as he gunned his engines...