Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might of the Russian hosts. They tried to analyze the first tremors in the uncertain Balkans, in what was left of German Italy, on those coasts of France and the Lowlands which were yet to be invaded, but certainly were affected by stresses placed on German arms and transport in the west...
...invasion would probably not be possible at all, except for the degree of air supremacy the Allies now enjoy, and the damage wreaked on German industry and transport...
...north the once-famed Hermann Goring Division, which had been wiped out in Tunisia and since reconstituted. Another reinforcement was an infantry division which had been fighting Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans at Istria. Prisoners from one regiment of reinforcements told Allied intelligence officers that half their motor transport and personnel had been destroyed on the way to the front by Allied air action, and that the remainder were decimated, as soon as they took up their line positions, by Allied tank attacks...
Where food is sufficient, the biggest lack is clothing. For silk, rayon or nylon from damaged Allied parachutes, the people will trade almost anything they have. When the peasants hear the roar of Allied transport planes, they hurry into queues before the local barter post, offer corn, potatoes, eggs, poultry, goats, sheep and calves for strips of parachute fabric collected by the Partisan Army...
...people do not grumble when they are vexed by authority. They shout, and the Partisan Command listens. A peasant told the Partisan Command that he was sorry, but he could not give up his horse for transport until the plowing was done. Patiently the Partisan Command waited. Correspondent Pribichevich's landlady came home one day in a rage. She had been held for questioning because she had tried to salvage some wood from a bombed building...