Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were 30-odd somewhere inside, but for a long time nothing happened. It takes time to gather rescue crews. It was noon when helmeted, heavy-shod men began going in, laden with masks, tools, equipment. When the first crew came out again, black-faced and exhausted, the word they carried...
...highly organized trek (rest places every 15 miles) stretched across some 500 miles of plains, mountains and badlands. Travel time was 30 to 40 days for donkey, mule and pony caravans laden with office files, books and the paraphernalia of entire institutions (like the Medical College, Art Academy and Resistance University...
...Probably . . . it would have been better if we had not done it." He reported that some 15 million German "displaced persons" were being chivied back & forth across Europe; that some ten million Frenchmen, Italians and others were also waiting to go home. Telling of how he watched the misery-laden procession of refugees in Berlin, he said: "I felt, my God, that is the price of man's stupidity. ... It was the most awful sight...
There was emotion, too, but of a different sort, in the hearts of the 11th Airborne Division as they dropped down on Atsugi, of the 4th Marines as they plunged ashore at Yokosuka, heavily laden with battle gear that was to be useless. This was the last beachhead, and they hit it standing up. There was no fight left in the enemy...
...remembered their moments of preoccupation just before the disaster. The first of the Franklin's planes had taken off; on her flight deck were Hellcats, Helldivers and Corsairs, weighed down with full loads of bombs and rockets, engines thunderously turning over. On the hangar deck more armed and laden planes were warming up, awaiting their turn on the elevators. Below, a crowd of enlisted men were lined up for morning chow. On the fantail a little group of men had just turned away from burying a sailor who had died, of illness, the day before. On the bridge...