Douglas Jumbo's The Globemaster
Publisher: Branden Books
Published: April 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780828320443
Subjects: Aerospace & aviation technology; Air forces & warfare; Transportation; History - Military / War; Military - General; Military Science; C-74 (Transport plane); C-124 (Transport plane); C-17 (Jet transport)
First sentence: It would not be considered a stretch of the imagination to assume that military planners during the Second World War realized that the transport of men and materials by ship was at best hazardous, at worse a deadly venture.