https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/2e69ee90-b094-44bd-8bbd-6fafc33bfd69 Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Presented in 1959 and hosted by Bob Considine, this film shows the USAF's Military Air Transport Services (MATS). Showcased are its capabilities and achievements, including the Berlin Airlift. Note: MATS was activated in 1948 and discontinued in 1966. (0:14) View of radar scope. (0:19) USAF personnel working inside radar station. (0:40) Douglas C-54 Skymaster in flight, (0:49) Title sequence. (1:15) Man biking on the Unter den Linden avenue afront the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (1:21) Douglas C-54 Skymaster taxiing (1:30) Offloading cargo from C-54 (1:57) People at market in Berlin (2:13) Soldiers patrol hillside and engage in combat in Korea. (2:41) Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw coming in for landing. (3:38) Medical staff loading wounded onto C-54. (3:50) Medical bunks on interior of Douglas C-54. (4:18) U.S. Air Force Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter taking off. (4:26) Forklift carrying cargo to C-54 on tarmac, fueling C-54. (4:50) Soldiers in troop transport trucks. (5:08) Douglas C-54 in flight, banking right. (5:16) Overhead footage of Air Force MATS base. (5:31) Officer briefing. (5:38) C-54 low pass over runway. (5:47) Outside of Beirut International Airport in the 1950s. (5:58) C-54 in flight. (6:01) Medical trucks on tarmac, wounded man exiting door of C-54. (6:16) C-54 portside in flight. (6:23) Aircraft marshal guiding C-54 on taxiway. (6:35) C-97 Rear starboard in flight. (6:40) Arctic mountain range filmed in flight. (6:44) Aircraft marshal guiding Curtiss C-46. (6:51) Tucker Sno-Cat with wagon attached. (6:56) U.S. Air Force Douglas DC-3 taxiing on runway. (7:06) Loading Thor T-110 intermediate range ballistic missile onto Douglas C-133 Cargomaster as part of Project Emily. (7:21) Douglas C-133 in flight. (7:26) Operations inside MATS headquarters at Scott AFB in Illinois, transport control center, plotting MATS transport aircraft on wall map. (8:02) MATS command meeting, discussing situation and plans. (8:54) Military personnel in downtown Beirut. (9:11) Silhouette of ships off shore of beach. (9:16) USS Chilton (APA-38) U.S. Navy Bayfield-class attack transport ship loading men onto LCVPs. (10:70) LCVPs making attack toward beach, landing on beach. (10:34) Operations inside MATS headquarters at Eastern Transport Air Force Headquarters in McGuire AFB New Jersey, plotting MATS transport aircraft on electrically illuminated wall map. (11:46) U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II in flight. (12:15) C-124 crew being picked up on tarmac to be briefed on new orders. (12:33) U.S. Air Force entry gate. (12:40) Douglas C-124 taking off during Lebanon crisis. (12:52) Radio operator inside C-124. (13:26) U.S. Army troops march into C-124. (13:51) U.S. Air Force air traffic controller in tower. (14:09) maintenance and control crews (14:45) Chin door of C-124 opening, troops marching out. (15:06) Soldiers communicating on field radio. (15:27) Loading semitrailer into C-124 chin door. (16:07) Milk bottling plant. (16:24) Isle Royale C-46 (16:35) TWA Lockheed Constellation airliner on ground. (16:57) C-133 Taxiing on runway. (17:11) Combat in Korea. (17:33) Personnel watching Japanese singer. (18:07) Commanders briefed on figurative communist invasion of Quemoy Islands, Matsu Islands, and Taiwan. (18:19) Western Transport Air Force (West AF) h.q., flyover of base, various transport and fighter planes taxiing and taking off. (18:43) Loading belly of Douglas C-133 Cargomaster (19:24) Lockheed C-121 (R7V-1) Constellation taking off. (19:31) Douglas DC-6 taking off. (19:37) C-124 taking off. (20:00) Milk production plant. (20:21) Tachikawa AFB, planes being loaded, truck driving into chin of C-124. (20:50 Tachikawa AFB grocery store (21:16) Pilots scrambling to F-86 Sabrejets. (21:25) Loading AIM-9 Sidewinder under wing of F-86 Sabre. (21:40) F-86 Sabres taking off and flying in combat wing formation. (21:53) AIM-9 sidewinder impacting propeller monoplane. (22:53) Loading Lockheed F-104 Starfighter into Douglas C-124 chin cargo door. (23:27) U.S. Air Force Base on Okinawa. (23:34) Boeing WB-50D Superfortress weather plane taking off. (23:52) Clark AFB, Mount Arayat in b/g. (24:05) Pilots scramble to F-104 Starfighter. (24:47) F-104s bank in formation. (25:23) Grumman HU-16 Albatross landing in water rescuing fisherman. (25:46) DC-3 taking off in snow. (25:51) Boeing B-52 Stratofortress taxiing. (25:27) President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower stepping off Air Force One -- the Lockheed VC-121E “Columbine III”. (26:01) MATS alert force on runway. (26:13) Troops board C-124. (26:27) Starting engine of C-124. (26:31) Boeing 707 fly over. (26:47) The End. 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