Falling between two stools

IN SERVICE FAIRCHILD C-82 Typical Packet loads — paratroops, equipment and vehicles — are arrayed in front of a trio of early in-service C-82As. USAF The C-82A’s USAF service might appear fairly ordinary, with no wartime action to its name. World War Two ended just as the first examples were entering service and the Packet was relegated to non-combat status by the time the Korean War began in 1950. It was the improved C-119 Flying Boxcar that gained its baptism