Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these soldiers, and their millions of buddies on troop transports, in Italian barber shops, in transport planes going over the Hump, in the dreary routine of guarded life in enemy prison camps, the invasion was a shot in the arm. Their eyes, too, were on the Normandy coast...
Said an Allied spokesman: "Scattered remnants of the German Fourteenth are mainly engaged in stealing one another's transport, to get away as fast as possible...
Last year, at a jungle base of the Air Transport Command far up in Assam province on the Burma border, a group of soldiers whipped together a vaudeville show. It was named from a form of war neurosis peculiar to the region where the hazards of flying the Hump are in every man's mind-Hump-Happy. Last week Hump-Happy was on tour. From its purely local start, it had humped through hundreds of performances on the jungle circuit. From Burma's border to the African Gold Coast it is the Army's No. 1 entertainment...
Paratroops, grotesque and awkward in their equipment, climbed into the C-47 transport planes. In swift succession the aircraft took off and crawled up toward the cloudy sky. With formation lights on because of the dense traffic, a parade of transports, gliders, tow planes, which in single file would have stretched more than 200 miles, droned across the English Channel...
...winter weather that caused a high percentage of flight cancellations (TIME, June 5). In addition, the Army was less generous in allowing operational expenses to be charged to Air Transport Command flights. Result: more administrative expense had to be allocated to, commercial costs, which pushed operating costs per revenue mile up to 95? v. 83.6? last year. But these factors, some of which the airlines must always reckon with, only pointed up the obstacles they face in reducing their postwar rates. Reductions in fixed costs will be difficult to make, while the public will be hoping for heavily reduced...