Word: shahpur
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Corporal Slick's Ride. The battle of Stalingrad was under way when the first men of the P.G.C. landed. Droves of supply-packed Liberty ships soon followed. But from the port of Bandar Shahpur there was no transport to Russia except a single-track railroad, running across desert as bare as the Sahara and through 47 miles of tunnels in mountains almost as high as the Rockies...
That the democracies may deliver was twice hinted last week. From Bandar Shahpur on the Persian Gulf came pictures of a ship landing goods bearing U.S. labels. The Russians announced that the first shipment of British tanks had gone into action on the Moscow front. The tanks were painted white, as camouflage against the snow...
...wharf on the Persian Gulf is no check to Adolf Hitler. Persia's slim facilities for transportation must be improved. Rolling stock has to be brought in (mostly from India, which has a different gauge but can produce the proper gauge). Ports like Bandar Shahpur on the Persian Gulf and Bandar Shah on the Caspian have to be modernized. Weak links in the railroads connecting the Persian Gulf with Russia must be remedied. To these ends a U.S. mission under Brigadier General Russell L. Maxwell, former Administrator of Export Control, prepared last week to leave for the Middle East...
...British appointed a transport expert, Brigadier General Sir Godfrey Rhodes, as director of transportation through Iran. Within a few days complete plans had been drawn up. It was decided to improve two Persian Gulf ports, Iran's Bandar Shahpur and Iraq's Basra (see map). Road and rail links with Teheran and Tabriz would be improved or completed as soon as possible. Auxiliary lines, from India via Baluchistan or Afghanistan, and from the Mediterranean via Syria or Palestine, may also be developed. But all this would take a long time...
...port of Bandar Shah (see map). To the south the British crossed from Iraq and made sure of the richest single oil field in existence; their warships in the Persian Gulf squashed Iran's minuscule Navy, sinking two sloops, capturing seven Axis ships. Indian troops landed at Bandar Shahpur and, after a brief brush, made sure of the world's largest oil-cracking plant, at Abadan. Not needed were more Indian troops poised on the border of Baluchistan, where shaving the head and varnishing the skull is the poor man's pith helmet...