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Global Airlift 220368-05 | Footage Farm

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[Global Airlift]
Air Force Now
LS  plane takeoff at dawn.  WWII:  Supplies loaded into plane.  Dutch sign for Red Cross.  Refugee children.  Arab man into plane. Supplies dropped on African village. 
21:13:30  26Jul1947  Truman signs bill creating separate Air Force.  First Air Force Chief of Staff Carl Spaatz (1891-1974).  Berlin June 1948 street scenes; Train barrier.  Plane maintenance.  
21:14:44  Gen. William H. Tunner, Commander Berlin airlift task force in 1948 talks in 1970s about operation.  Activities on airfield during Berlin airlift.  Control room.  Radar screen.  Walter Cronkite talks of being a correspondent during the airlift.  Supplies loaded on planes including crates of milk.  Planes flying low. 
21:16:05  June 1950  Battle in South Korea, troops into plane.  Lieut. Gen. Joe Smith 1940s.  Interview in 1970s re operations.  C-54 planes on airfield, trucks out of C-124 plane. Troops into lane.  Supplies storage.  Wounded on stretcher evacuated by air. 
21:17:42  General Howell Estes Military Airlift Command (MAC) from 1964 - 1969.  C-141 in flight. trucks on airfield, troops board transport to Vietnam.  Aerial view Vietnam harbor & cargo vessels.  Vietnam airfield & cargo unloaded.  Wounded into plane.  Nurses w/ wounded in plane (GOOD COLOR).  Supplies dropped by parachute. 
21:20:15  Tanks loaded into C-5, interior shots.  Cargo plane flies past snowy mountain (good).  Graph C-141 stretch.  C-141 on ground.  Cargo loaded into Pan Am plane (name visible).  Tanker cargo aircrafts fly over mountain  range.  
21:21:37  General speech to camera re challenges of the future for Military airlift.  Presented by your Air Force.

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