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U.S. Air Force Aircraft transport 600 Belgian Para-Commando troopers, on rescue mission to Stanleville, Congo
View from behind the pilot in cockpit of a U.S.Air Force C-130 transport aircraft of the 322nd Air Division, U.S. Air Forces Europe, approaching Stanleyville, Congo, on a mercy mission to save lives of Belgian hostages held by Congolese rebels who threaten to kill them. View from tarmac on the airport, as Belgian paratroopers exit the aircraft while its engines are still running. They secure the airfield, unload supplies and ammunition, and start moving toward the center of Stanleyville. View from moving vehicle traveling along deserted street in Stanleyville. After hearing shots, the paratroopers come upon a courtyard where they find numerous Belgian dead. View of courtyard and bodies covered with cloth. Another dozen, or so, bodies are seen lying in another group. One dead seen lying in the roadway. Bullet-riddled car at side of road. Local Congolese residents (non-rebels) board trucks for transport to the airport. Hundreds of rescued Belgian people are gathered at the airport. A C-46 transport aircraft is parked in the background. A Belgian trooper walks past. Next, a view, again, from behind the pilot in a USAF C-130 aircraft, this time, approaching Leopoldville. Ground crewman guides the aircraft to a parking place on the Leopoldville airport ramp. Rescued people walk across the ramp. U.S. Air Force airmen carry body of a victim,on a stretcher, down the rear ramp of a C-130. Bodies of those killed, are laid out across the entrance of a hangar at the airport. Two U.S. Marines place American flags on the bodies of medical missionary, Dr. Paul Earle Carlson, and missionary, Phyllis Rine. More views of rescued persons walking with some belongings, across the tarmac and gathered around the open rear door of a C-130. Tail number of the C-130 is 40499. A USAF C-119 aircraft; a C-97 (of the Military Airlift Command); and a C-54 aircraft are parked in the background.
Belgian forces board an aircraft in Leopoldville, Congo
Belgian soldiers load equipment and baggage onto a C -130 E plane and board it in Leopoldville, Republic of Congo. TAC C-130 E planes parked along the runway and tents erected at Ascension Island airstrip
Belgian forces board TAC C-13O E aircraft in Leopoldville, Congo
Belgian soldiers on a rescue mission load equipment and baggage onto a C -13O E plane and board it in Leopoldville, Republic of Congo.
A B-26K Cachita takes off and in flight Leopoldville, Congo
A B-26 K Cachita loaded with 2.75" FFARS parked at an airbase in Leopoldville, Republic of Congo. Plane taxis along the runway, takes off and in flight.
U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft airlift freed hostages from Stanleyville, to Leopoldville, Republic of Congo
Crisis of Insurrection in Republic of Congo. A U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft parked on a ramp. A B-26 aircraft taxiing behind it. Belgian troops with their gear rest in shade under wing of a C-130 aircraft. Ambulances drive to the tail of a C-130 that just arrived. The tail door of the aircraft opens and Belgian women and children (hostages freed from Stanleyville) come down the ramp. They are met and driven away. Another C-130 arrives and also discharges freed Belgian hostages.
U.S. Air Force airlift operations in support of Belgian troops during crisis in Republic of Congo.
Belgian troops on Kamina airfield in Republic of Congo. U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft behind them, raising dust with engines running. Belgian officers talk with a U.S. Air Force photographer. A U.S. Air Force Captain at flight planning table with several Belgian officers. Supplies being unloaded from C-130 aircraft. A truck moves away from the plane. Belgian Army scout cars drive across ramp and troops get down. U.S. Air Force Colonel Clayton M.Isaacson stands with an Air Force Captain and a photographer as they watch the C-130 commence its takeoff. The C-130 begins takeoff, raising dust. A Belgian soldier, with machine gun watches. The Aircraft makes long takeoff roll and barely clears trees at end of the airstrip.
