Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman visits U.S. troops in Korea. Cardinal Spellman disembarks from a U.S. Military C-121 (Lockheed Constellation) aircraft, at Seoul Airport, in Korea. He is dressed in black clerical habit for traveling. General Matthew Ridgway greets Cardinal Spellman .A Korean girl presents flowers to the Archbishop who enters a car and drives away. Later, Cardinal Spellman, dressed in Army clothing, arrives at a sanctuary set up under a very large tent. Many soldiers line up to kiss the Cardinal's ring. Cardinal Spellman conducts Mass and administers Holy Communion to soldiers.
'Boxcars of the Korean Skies' shows U.S. Air Force airlift operations in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. 315th Air Division operations show C-119 Flying Boxcar and C-46 Commando transport planes being loaded at an airfield in Japan. A truck backs up to load combat equipment onto a transport plane. Soldiers unload packets from the truck and load them in the plane. Interior of the C-119 shows parachute straps being strapped to an overhead carrier. The C-119 planes taxi on a runway and take off. The pilot's compartment of a C-119 plane. The planes in flight over an area near Seoul in Korea to drop supplies for UN troops serving in Korea.
U.S. Air Force airlift operations in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. 315th Air Division operations show C-119 Flying Boxcar transport planes dropping cargo and paratroopers over an area near Seoul. Interiors of a C-119 shows cargo packets ready for release. The C-119 drops parachute supplies. The parachutes descend. The pilot's compartment of the C-119. Two C-119 drop parachutes. A large number of parachutes open and descend. The pilot of the C-119 smokes a cigar.
U.S. Air Force airlift operations in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. 315th Air Division operations show a C-46 Commando transport plane in flight over Korea. The pilot and the co-pilot in the C-46 plane. An aerial view of mountains. Interior of the C-46 shows the cargo in position and the crew making preparations for dropping the cargo. The crew moves the cargo packets into position at the door. They dump the packets out the door. Parachutes drop in the mountainous terrain at low altitude. UN troops stand near the drop area. The C-46 releases packets. A crew member looks out of the cargo hatch. The crew members shove packets out of the cargo door. An airman on a mountain looks through binoculars. Two Korean laborers remove a parachute from a pine tree. UN troopers remove the contents of the packets at the drop zone.
U.S. Air Force airlift operations in Korea during the Korean War. Interior of a C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft shows pilot of 437th Troop Carrier Wing, Lieutenant Colonel Howard T. Markey, talking to the co-pilot, Captain Vernon J. Mouton. The Lt. Col. and the Captain sitting at the controls of the plane in flight check over the instrument panel and talk about the same. The C-54 in flight. It approaches Kimpo Airfield for landing.
U.S. Air Force airlift operations in Korea during the Korean War. Interior of a C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft shows the crew getting on the aircraft prior to take off from Kimpo Airfield near Seoul. The radio operator of Command Post 1, Norman Bass ; Lieutenant Ernest Amerine and crew-chief technical sergeant Thomas G. Cooper. The interior of the plane shows T/Sergeant checking the cargo. The crew walks down a ladder. A truck backs up towards the C-54. Korean native laborers get off the truck and unload artillery shell cases from the plane into the truck. Several views of airmen and Koreans unloading the artillery shells. Combat troops walk up a step ladder into the door of the C-54. All the men are carrying carbines.