Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost seven weeks now the U.S. Fifth Army had been edging, inch by weary inch, toward Bologna, still eight miles away. Eastward the British Eighth* worked painfully along the Bologna-Rimini highway, was still 39 miles southeast of Bologna. To the unshaven, mud-stained dogface, red-eyed from lack of sleep, gaunt from K and C rations, it looked like another long, hard winter that civilians could not begin to feel in their preoccupation with the fresh glories of Allied arms...
...landed his reinforcements in four transports at Ormoc, at the south end of the hammerhead of Leyte. Two transports were sunk by P-38 and P-40 fighter-bombers, but only after they had been unloaded. By that time fresh Jap tanks and trucks were moving up the highway from Ormoc to the front. It was still true that the battle for Leyte had been decided, but its length and its total cost were yet to be counted. Nobody believed that the Japs would fail to run true to Bushido form, fight to the last...
...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...
Along the highway are blocks of warehouses for storing spare parts; machine shops with facilities to repair or install medium-caliber guns ; an automotive over haul plant which recovers thousands of vehicles from the scrap heap; acres of tank farms (depots); acres of under ground ammunition storage depots; refrigerators for meat, vegetables, fruit to supply the fleet. Now abuilding is a bottling plant with a capacity of 500 cases of soft drinks an hour...
...celebrated "Red Ball" truck highway across France, Piper Cubs at low altitude now patrol the roads, radio the nearest salvage depot when they spot a breakdown. Behind the fighting lines, the "cannibalizing" of tanks and guns (piecing together new units from dismantled wrecks) has been put on an assembly-line basis. But even miracles have their limits: there came a point where the supply miracle had been stretched to the snapping point. Organization and improvisation had done their utmost. The Allied armies slowed down, stopped...