MATS: The Story of the Military Air Transport Service (The Watts Aerospace Library)

Language: English

Published by Franklin Watts, 1964

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1st Edition / 1st Printing - 1964 (Watts). VERY GOOD in a good mylar protected dust jacket. No marks in text. Light wear on cover, Binding is tight and square. 124 pages illustrations, maps 25 cm. . . . . . . . MATS: The Story of the Military Air Transport Service by Stanley M. Ulanoff is a 1964 history of the U.S. Military Air Transport Service (MATS), written for a general and younger readership as part of the Watts aerospace library series. In roughly 124 pages, Ulanoff traces the origins of MATS from the consolidation of the Army Air Transport Command and the Naval Air Transport Service in 1948, then follows its development into a global airlift organization responsible for strategic transport, medical evacuation, logistics support, and specialized missions worldwide. The book combines narrative history with photographs, maps, and plate sections to illustrate major operations such as the Berlin Airlift, Cold War troop deployments, disaster relief, and long-range supply flights that linked the continental United States with distant bases. Ulanoff emphasizes the technological evolution of transport aircraft and the expanding mission of MATS as ?our nation?s global airlift force,? highlighting how its crews provided weather services, air?sea rescue, and aerial mapping in addition to routine cargo and passenger runs, thereby giving readers a concise, accessible overview of an often overlooked but vital arm of American air power in the early Cold War era.…

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Title
MATS: The Story of the Military Air Transport Service (The Watts Aerospace Library)
Author
Stanley Ulanoff
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Publication year
1964
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Good
Binding
Hardback
Language
English
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