air supply & transport

A US C-46 transport plane and cargo in the CBI during WWII.

An assortment of supplies, including a four-wheeled vehicle, inside a US C-46 transport plane in the CBI during WWII.

Bundles of food and ammunition being loaded aboard a C-47 of the 14th Air Force Transport Unit. They will be kicked out to Chinese troops cut off from ground supply in eastern China.

Bundles to be dropped by parachute are being tied to static line. The chutes will open automatically when kicked from the doorway to besieged Chinese troops by members of the Fourteenth Air Force Transport Unit.

American servicemen load or unload supplies from a US C-47 transport plane, tail #316189. Since, according the stories shared by veterans, African-American servicemen rarely made it into China, this must be outside of China, most likely India or Burma.

Men inside a US transport plane drop supplies from the air. 10CU 6M20 2ND T.C. AIR SUPPLY SEC.

A US cargo plane drops supplies from the air. 10CU 5M20 3 2ND T.C. AIR SUPPLY SEC.

A US C-47 cargo plane drops supplies from the air. ... 10 CU... 2ND T.C. AIR SUPPLY SEC.

An American transport plane drops supplies by parachute somewhere in the CBI.

A C-46 cargo plane of the Air Transport Command (ATC), tail number #296779, being unloaded (or loaded) in China during WWII.