Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Transport, supply, medical, engineering, weather branches had to be built up. In a few months the A.A.F. had to overtake an enemy who had been building a striking air force for more than a decade...
...Starting with only two officers and one clerk in a small room today's Army Transport Command totals over 85,000 officers and men." In a single day, recently, A.T.C. delivered 390 tons of material by air to one theater of operations...
...sing U.S. flyers of the South Atlantic. This week the Army officially revealed why. Tiny (34 square miles) Ascension Island, 1,400 miles from the bulge of Brazil, is one of the vital links in the Air Transport Command's world-girdling chain of airfields. Ascension is the dot in the ocean that made it possible to fly Lightning (P-38) single-seated fighters across the South Atlantic to combat fields in North Africa and England...
Famed abroad as official mascot of the squadron, Lady Moe grew less & less loved at home. Secret cuffs and kicks began to come her way. The public-relations officer of the base, to whom falls the task of handling Lady Moe's correspondence, transport and social arrangements, openly lamented the day she left Africa. Said he: "I joined the Air Forces to serve my country and look at me. I'm nothing but nursemaid to a goddamned jackass...
...airlines will not be able materially to increase their business next year unless they get back more planes. When the Air Transport Command grabbed 159 commercial planes in 1942, the airlines kept right on increasing their traffic by getting more miles out of their remaining 165 planes, and loading them more heavily. Pointing to this record of efficiency, the Committee cracked a whip at ATC, said that the return of only 16 planes (five of these to replace commercial planes destroyed) "is not creditable...