Download or read book Douglas C-124 Globemaster II written by Earl Berlin and published by Air Force Legends. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The answer to a need for larger and faster commercial and military airlifters was provided by, among others, the Douglas aircraft company with its military C-74 and C-124 cargo planes. The C-124 evolved from an earlier Douglas design, the C-74 Globemaster. Officially, it was the Globemaster II, but the name had no appeal to the "drivers and fixers", so it came to be called "Old Shaky" or just plain "Shaky", and as time passed, the name was more often than not uttered with a kind of reverence.