Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often as not he works into his painting some dramatic animal-like machine like the one this week. They are almost his trademark today; perhaps you remember the flying freight-cars behind Air Transport's General George-the sea serpent submarines around Nazi Admiral Doenitz-or the pistol-pointing battleship behind smirking Admiral Nagano of the Japanese Navy...
...watched from the bridge of a transport, one Hellcat, strafing from 700 feet, caught a burst of flak. The plane burst into flame and plummeted into the water. The fire was extin uished as quickly as"'the life of the pilot...
...applicant; 2) whether the traffic can bear the operation of more than one line to a route. Established domestic carriers will have good talking points in their war experience-all the big ones and many of the smaller have reaped much experience flying the world for the Air Transport Command...
...first road show was arranged for by a general who assigned the actors to two weeks' detached duty. The time was extended again & again. The show is not officially recognized and the men have no travel orders. But because others want to see them, the Air Transport Command flies them in to the lonely places. They prefer playing such places because they lived at one themselves, and they know...
Vivid Gadget. The portable recorders carried straight into battle by some radiomen (best was the Navy's film recorder) gave war reporting a vividness it has never had before. NBC's Wright Bryan had a recorder aboard a transport plane going in with paratroops. He described the scene and tension admirably, but none of his words matched the fateful clicks as the paratroopers hooked up their automatic release belts. A BBC recording caught a bargeload of British Tommies singing For Me and My Gal on their way to Normandy...