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Bombs & Shells. There was no air opposition. When the bombers finished, the artillery took up the pounding, fired some 85,000 shells from guns ranging up to 240-mm. (9.4-in.) bore. The artillery barrage was heavier than the famous pounding that preceded El Alamein. Said Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, Mediterranean air commander...
This mistake was not repeated. Wise Joe Eastman's orders were: 1) no cars loaded until the consignee's sidings can receive them; 2) load cars heavier. Proof that his ideas were sound came in the 115% increase in freight ton-miles over 1939-still there is no serious car shortage...
Most worried were the operating officials of the Western railroads. The long miles of single track that snake through the Rockies must move heavier & heavier loads of troops and munitions to West Coast ports. Southern Pacific has ordered 300 locomotives and 10,000 freight cars since 1939, but now S.P. must have 10,000 more employes to keep traffic rolling...
These improvements have speeded up trains and made heavier loads possible. With the new rolling stock to be built this year, the railroads could handle the estimated 761 billion freight-ton miles, and 102 billion passenger miles if they...
...Kinkaid's navy, composed mostly of small craft, roams the Bismarck Sea at will, bears down with flaming guns to silence Jap shore batteries. Even PTs serve prominently in such activities. MacArthur described them as "shelling" several Jap positions. Observers of the heightening South Pacific war concluded that heavier weapons have been added to the PTs' cluster of 50-caliber guns to help exploit the advantages and widening opportunities of the Bismarck...