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...Presidential C-54 lurched through stormy weather, sat down at Kansas City behind a sister ship that carried reporters and secret servicemen. Up the ramp of the "Sacred Cow" ran daughter Mary Margaret; her "Hi, Daddy!" rang out above the low roar of the engines...
...outer covering of the building will be winding bands of seamless concrete and glass, rising 100 ft. At the top, the structure will project 24 ft. beyond the ground level building-line. The interior of this huge upended cone will consist of a continuous, gradually rising, gradually widening, ramp picture-gallery ¾ of a mile long. A great glass dome will top the last wide spiral sweep...
...Landing Ships, Medium) came alongside Fort Drum pirate fashion. While scow-like LCVPs pushed to hold it against the concrete portside, soldiers raced across a wooden ramp, dropped like a Roman drawbridge from the LSM's superstructure to the fort's topside. The Japs had time for only a few shots; they wounded a sailor in the neck, a soldier in the hand and nicked the brow of the task force's dashing commander, Colonel Robert H. Soule. Then, while the soldiers covered all ports, the LCM pumped 1,800 gallons of gasoline and oil into...
...operation in the European Theater required so much careful preparation. Vice Admiral Alan G. Kirk's landborne outfits were ready at H-hour. On the Twenty-first Army Group's north front, soon after the first troops had crossed in assault boats, the Navy's ramp-bowed craft came rolling up to the Rhine on mammoth trucks and were quickly launched. Soon a stream of LCVPs and LCMs were ferrying men, tanks, guns, bulldozers, hundreds of drums of gasoline to the east banks. Power launches and other small craft shuttled the Rhine in such profusion that amazed...
Last week the U.S. Army showed pictures of the U.S. version of V1, called "Yankee Doodle". Yankee Doodle is faster (400 to 440 m.p.h.) than the German robomb and reportedly more accurate. It is launched from a ramp by means of a rocket-propelled undercarriage on wheels, which is jettisoned after the takeoff. It is now in quantity production. But up to this week there had been no report of a Yankee Doodle fired at an enemy target...