Word: train
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sole offerings of the Navy are its air crewman and radio technician programs, both of which bear promise of promotion to petty officer rankings. With physical requirements almost up to Air Corps standards, the former plan is designed to train gunners, mechanics, and radiomen, although candidates with markedly superior ability may be given pilot training and eventually commissions...
Last September the political prisoners of Saint-Gilles passed along a message through their darkened cells: at 8:30 the next morning they would be taken by train to Germany. The Allies were advancing on Brussels...
...morning 1,500 prisoners marched, singing, to the station. They were squeezed into cattle trucks. But Brussels' Resistance had been busy. The engine would not run. Another was found and coupled onto the train. But the engineer could not be found. A searching party discovered him at home, sick in bed. A substitute, hurriedly sent for, had an accident on his way to the station. Until 2 in the afternoon the train stood in the yards...
...hours behind schedule, the train chuffed out. Soon the second engine developed mechanical trouble. Water in the boiler ran low. The engineer suggested that there was a water pump at Malines, 13 miles away. He knew, but the Germans did not, that the Malines pump was out of order...
...took eight hours to reach Malines. By 5 o'clock the next morning the desperate Germans decided to start all over again, ordered the train back to Brussels...