Based on the McDonnell-Douglas Globemaster III C-17, Quickmover had been specially upgraded by the Dreamland design team to act as a front-line, combat cargo ship. Equipped with state of the art avionics and locating gear that would allow the aircraft to drop supplies and paratroopers deep inside hostile territory, Quickmover had proven herself in combat several times. But she was still a cargo aircraft with no offensive capability; if things got nasty, her only option would be to run away. The ship would have virtually no chance of surviving a gauntlet like the one the Bennett had just gone through. But that didn’t prevent the crew from volunteering for the mission as soon as Dog told them what was going on. “Let’s get the hell in the air,” said Captain Harry “Whitey” Golden, the pilot, when Dog told him about the transmission. Whitey—his premature gray dome made the nickname a natural—spoke for the entire crew. The aircraft was airborne and winging north inside of twenty minutes.
