Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They threw together living quarters and mess halls. They ran out jetties for cargo ships, already on the way. They hacked roads through the jungles into the hills. Army troops had drawn water from shell holes, but the Seabees tapped a waterfall, installed chlorination and storage tanks and set up a system to produce 3,000,000 gallons of water...
Road to Tokyo. Today hundreds of vessels-boats, warships,' cargo carriers, combat transports-crawl across the Manus lagoon, which is big enough to shelter all the navies of the world. A 300-ft. pier is constantly thronged with Navy personnel waiting water-taxi service to their ships. Trucks, jeeps, weapon carriers move from the docking area onto a three-lane road of coral rock, called "Victory Highway," which invades the hills...
...Allied armies on Germany's border continued to unfold. In London last week, Colonel Leslie Arnold, onetime Eastern Air Lines assistant to Eddie Rickenbacker, told how the ten-day sweep of General Patton's Third Army across France had been serviced by hundreds of cargo planes shuttling back & forth from England. In the last stages of Patton's rush, 50 gallons of high-octane aviation fuel had been required for every 100 gallons of ordinary motor fuel laid down for Patton's tanks and trucks-but, Arnold added, "it was worth...
...methods which ruined the U-boats in 1942-43. But the sub commanders are more "shy, cautious and nervous" than they used to be. The "largest ocean supply convoy of all time" -167 ships spread over 26 square miles of seaway and carrying 1,000,000 tons of cargo-recently arrived in Britain without meeting a single U-boat attack on the way. Like most Atlantic convoys these days, this one was protected by an all-Canadian escort...
Again the Japs were caught flatfooted. Carrier aircraft trapped 97 planes on the ground, destroyed them, shot down 124 more in the air by midafternoon. While the fighters tallied this score, the bombers slashed at airfields, hangars, oil dumps, warehouses, docks and shipping, sank 16 cargo vessels...