Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lines of the West Wall had come apart at a critical point, and he had no first-rate fighting men to cement the breaches. The might of Eisenhower's armies pressed in on him, threatened to engulf him at a dozen points, and he did not have the transport to shift his reserves (if any) to meet the worst of the threats...
...dawn, a B-25 and the last transport would take off, carrying Brigadier General Clinton ("Casey") Vincent, his tactical staff, General "Tim" Timberman. Chief of Ground Forces, David Lee ("Tex") Hill. On the ground then would remain only the last demolition men under Colonel Waldo Kenerson, to blow the last field, the last buildings; and Major George Hightower to make sure no air-corps strays were left behind at the last minute...
...country was reflected in the government. In De Gaulle's Cabinet were two Communists, grey, wiry Air Commissioner Charles Tillon, handsome Health Commissioner François Billoux. But the Cabinet also contained two right-wing extremists, the young, athletic Commissioner for Prisoners and Deportees, Henri Frenay and Transport Commissioner René Mayer, a onetime Rothschild confidant...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 40, who became the Nazis' richest U.S. prisoner when he was captured in southern France a month ago, escaped from a prison train, made his way back to U.S. lines. He told an awesome story of the destruction wreaked by U.S. airmen on German transport: the freight train on which he started toward Germany had taken eleven days to cover 80 miles, had three different locomotives on the journey. Reported a fellow fugitive: Jock was the coolest of all the prisoners, keeping up a blow-by-blow description of U.S. planes strafing the train...
...Transport Revolution. Johnson had steered a postwar course before. He left the University of Washington during World War I to become an engineer in Bill Boeing's little airplane factory, became its president nine years later. When the company won a contract to carry air mail from San Francisco to Chicago, he built the planes for the job, and then found himself running an airline. From the first he disapproved the carnival atmosphere aviation had then, and the disapproval drove him to innovations that have become standard in all U.S. air transport...