Hello all,

I'm illustrating a children's book for military families, and I need help finding photo references for a particular aircraft.

Since the book deals with deployment, there is a brief scene where one young girl's father gets on a plane that she and her mother watch take off. I'm not sure which giant military aircraft would be appropriate. Looking at my Dad's Air Force Contrails book from 1991 and straining to remember what I'd see land on base as a kid, I'm guessing a Lockheed C-type strategic or tactical airlift model like the C-141B Starlifter, C-130 Hercules, or a C-5 Galaxy. Am I way off-base here (please don't laugh if I am)? When I was little we'd just call them called "People Movers."

Do the different branches of the military use vastly different types of planes when moving their deployed soldiers from the States? The publisher wants to keep the book branch-neutral so it can be marketed towards any branch of the military. Any uniforms will be the basic combat uniforms but without many branch-specific details.

If any of you with military experience could help point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it! I'm pretty lost and trying to keep my sketches as accurate as possible.

Thanks!