Word: munitioneer
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* There was scarcely time to return between strikes. Mitscher might have rearmed and refueled at sea from a "sea train" of oilers and munition carriers.
For the first time this summer, the War Production Board had good news from the munition front:
Great columns of smoke rose over abandoned and burning munition dumps. From Thelepte airport near Fériana, flames licked into the air as retreating troops fired 60,000 gallons of aviation gasoline. Three airports were abandoned. In the valleys of olive groves around Sbeïtla lay more than...
On April 16, 1941 Reporter O'Donnell sent his papers a dispatch which they printed next day and which said: "Charges that battlecraft of the Navy and Coast Guard are now giving armed escort to munition-laden British merchantmen leaving Atlantic ports exploded . . . tonight." Next day the strongly pro...
But the crucial battle of the year centered not in production but in transportation (see map). As the Army predicted, it was above all the year of logistics. A few hours after Pearl Harbor the Santa Fe's Super Chief and the Union Pacific's City of Los...