Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their tropical islands 200 miles out in the Atlantic, the Farm Security Administration set up an air ferry service. The first two groups of 21, some dressed in dungarees, some in zoot suits, coasted in on Pan-Am Clippers. Then came a batch of 60 in a huge Army transport. Few days later, 76 arrived by boat; by week's end 850 Bahamians were on their knees, pushing hampers between the endless rows of bean vines...
...These commands were not rigid. Their missions occasionally overlapped. On some days the Strategic and Tactical Air Forces combined to attack an airfield; on others, the Strategic and Coastal Forces combined to attack Axis transport planes...
...Immediacy. The Tactical Air Force is under the command of Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, formerly the Eighth Army's brilliant air officer. It is, said General Spaatz, designed for "immediate results." Its job is to attack, with fighters and light and medium bombers, enemy troops, transport, airports and battle planes. One day last week, Air Marshal Coningham sent Marauders and Spitfires against 28 Axis planes parked on Oudna Field, south of Tunis; Hurri-bombers, Spitfires and Bostons against one large concentration of Afrika Korps vehicles; and Warhawks against another...
...Doolittle, had to be reminded last week that April 18 was the anniversary of his raid on Tokyo. He looked in his logbook, found an entry describing "a 13-hour flight - one landing," and said: "So it was." On a typical day last week his Fortresses found 112 Axis transport planes on the ground at Castel-vetrano, Sicily, and destroyed 51, including eight huge six-motored planes; found 106 more at Milo, destroyed...
...First began that battle. Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson and his First Army landed at Algiers on Nov. 9, and they set forth at once for Tunisia. Because they could not know what kind of reception they would get, they were long on offensive weapons, short on transport. Nevertheless they threw "a couple of brigades and a blade of armor" toward Tunis. They traveled in two columns. One reached Mateur, the other Tebourba, 20 and 18 miles from Bizerte and Tunis respectively. By then the advance forces had outrun transport and air support so far that they...