Has anyone ever seen the Bev with what looks like an arrestor hook! (Is it the largest aircraft to ever have one?) for Ground Proximity Extraction drops?
No, but to set the scene, for many years NATO Forces held an exercise to practice for a second Berlin airlift. This consisted of Transalls and USAF/RAF C130 being escorted around northern germany by F4/Mirage/F104/F15.
As you would expect, the 'package' returned to base together. To take the urine out of the fighter jocks, I once saw a USAF C130 deploy the mother of all 'brake' parachutes upon landing!
I bet she stopped toute-suite as well.