Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flew to France in General Brereton's transport," Graebner reported. "Then Generals Brereton and Royce, Air Marshals Coningham and Bottomley and I piled into a jeep and command car and headed up the peninsula along the long straight road to Cherbourg. Later we flew along the American and British lines. Allied fighter bombers and rocket-carrying Typhoons screeched and screamed across the sky just south of our plane...
With the Führer so far away, German troops in the path of the Russians relied on materials closer to hand. In a feverish hurry they laid extensive minefields, felled trees, dynamited huge craters in the roads, blew up bridges and rail trackage, destroyed any of their own transport which they could not fuel or repair...
...open transport, where a detachment of Negroes was left to load small boats, they volunteered to unload and tend the wounded who were brought back to the transport. They handled stretchers, washed the wounded and even wrote letters for them...
...F.F.I, was proving even stronger and more dangerous to the Germans than the Allies had hoped. Said Eisenhower's communiques: "The arm of French Forces of the Interior has with its British and American comrades played its assigned role in the battle of liberation. . . . Systematic disorganization of enemy transport by the F.F.I, has contributed directly to the success of Allied operations in Normandy...
...this year of plenty, with so much wheat and so many transport troubles, thousands of bushels will remain piled high in the fields after the harvest, or be stored in empty village buildings. But the wheat will still be good, and the nation will need...