The Military Air Transport Service (MATS) was activated on 1
June 1948, as a consolidation of the United States Navy's Naval Air
Transport Service (NATS) and the United States Air Force's Air Transport
Command (ATC) into a single joint command. During World War II, the
USAAF Air Transport Command provided worldwide transport service to
every continent on the globe. Inheriting that legacy, MATS continued
that service and organized it into three major transport divisions;
Atlantic, Pacific, and Continental Divisions. When MATS was established,
it also took responsibility for several other missions. |