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Operation Haylift is a 1950 American aviation film by William Berke starring Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford, and Tom Brown. The film - a fictionalized account of a true story - documents the United States Air Force mission in 1948–49 to save thousands of cattle caught in the snowdrifts of a sudden winter storm in northern Nevada.
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- William Berke
- Joe Sawyer
May 9, 2017 · Operation Haylift ended Feb. 17, 1949. According Col. Adrian Williams, the mission’s commanding officer, Operation Haylift’s Air Force planes flew 1,600 hours and 270,000 miles with no...
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With Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford, Tom Brown, Jane Nigh. Eighteen snowstorms in 27 days hit the Rocky Mountain and upper Great Plains states in December 1948-January 1949. This epic tells the tale of how the US Air Force airdropped food and supplies to stranded travelers, residents and livestock.
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By the fourth week in January, it was evident that some two million snowbound cattle and sheep in Nebraska and surrounding areas were in jeopardy. To feed stranded livestock, the Air Force launched Operation Hayride, better known as Operation Haylift, using C-47 and C-82 cargo planes.
by Daniel L. Haulman. Operation Name: Operation Haylift. Location: Montana. Date: December 18–21, 1964. Emergency: Blizzards isolated cattle and sheep in southeastern Montana, threatening them with starvation. Organizations: 349th and 452d Troop Carrier Wings; and 938th, 940th, 941st, and 945th Troop Carrier Groups.
Mar 14, 2015 · Under Operation Haylift, the U.S. Air Force flew 550 tons of hay from Kansas and Colorado to Casper in late January, 1949. Shown here is a C-47 at what was still the Casper Army Air Base at the time--now Natrona County airport. Casper College Western History Center. The blizzard.
