Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British, the Transport Command was an important move. On the world's new international airways, British pilots will now have a chance to absorb the newfangled techniques of land-plane, over-water, high-speed operation which the U.S. has been developing...
...Britain, rich in bases, is poor in some of the tools of international air transport. Hence the British keenly feel the need for international agreements which will equalize competitors at the postwar starting line. Said Walter Leslie Runciman, head of B.O.A.C.: "After the war you will have victors and neutrals feeling they must have some kind of air transport and if you are not careful you are going to have airline competition between governments with a disarmament-political complex. If that happens the Americans will have all the advantages because they have the planes and the money...
...Unless you get a decently organized world air-transport system, you are not going to get a decently organized world...
After Rommel's attack on the Alamein line in August had been turned back, Allied planes began a campaign of strategic bombing. They blasted Rommel's transport columns, bases, shipping. Then, in a second phase, Coningham stepped up his operations until he was conducting an all-out air offensive. He knocked out the Luftwaffe. The onslaught was independent of and preceded by two weeks General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's ground attack. But when Montgomery's Eighth hit, air and ground were immediately coordinated in the third phase. Coningham's bombers pounded rear lines while...
...Russians this year. Thaws came early. And they came just at the time when the Russians had crossed the Donets into the area where the Germans had adjusted the gauge of rail lines (in white on map). The Russians were suddenly deprived of two of their three methods of transport and were dependent on wheels and muddy roads...