Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus it fell to a. professional soldier to lead them. The world's No. 1 transport airman today is Major General Harold Lee George, boss of the Army Air Forces' burgeoning Air Transport Command...
...such an assignment would have called for weeks of preparation. That ATC could put it through now with such swift efficiency was the result of many providential circumstances. One of them is that the wide-open spaces of the U.S. had given it the finest domestic and ocean air-transport system in the world...
...Transport's Problem. As students of strategy like Harold George have long known, a war is fought primarily by logistics-the. supply and movement of men and materiel. But it is probable that few, if any, of the Army's experts on strategy realized how complicated logistics would become in the global developments of World...
...routes are being opened. By the end of 1943, Hal George's Air Transport Command will be ten times as big as the combined airlines of the peacetime world. It will fly nearly three million miles daily, over routes 90,000 miles long. Meanwhile its airmen will fly thousands of hours in the U.S., in the domestic transfer of freight and military aircraft...
...Transport's Beginning. Three years ago in the embassy at Washington the late Marquess of Lothian, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador, was asked by a reporter how bombers bought under the cash-&-carry plan could be transported to sorely pressed England. Lord Lothian whispered: "I have been told they might be flown over...