[GH85Carrera]

Dad was the PIC for C-54s. C-47s. C-124s but never was assigned to a C-130. He always had close communications with his loadmaster. He talked about one time he was in the Philippines and they stuffed his C-124 full of mattresses to be delivered to troops stuck on some remote island in the Pacific. He said it was really hot and humid, and the numbers did not fit, so they could not take off until it got cooler. Finally one morning after several days of waiting he figured they could leave. He said they had to crawl on their bellies like a snake to get to the cockpit as all the mattresses in the shipment filled the airplane. He said they took off, and still ended up mowing off the top of a 1/4 mile of sugarcane. He said when they landed and got the mattresses unloaded the troops were really happy to have something more than cots or the ground to sleep on.



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