Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...B258 dumped 500-lb. bombs on the enlarged target. Ten minutes later came Australian Beaufighters. Next another wave of Mitchells dropped explosives on dodging cargo ships and destroyers. This fight was for the kill. The Mitchells swooped low to strafe lifeboats and rafts. A destroyer, three merchantmen and a transport were sunk. Eight others were hit. One squadron of Mitchells, skip-bombing at mast level, got twelve hits, despite the nail of frantic Jap ack-ack. More Zeros appeared, but they too were shot down. Kenney's bombers were blasting at Lae, nearest Jap airdrome, with such ferocity that...
Speaking at the Manhattan rally for Madame Chiang Kai-shek (see p. 13), General Arnold said that President Roosevelt had sent him to Chungking with instructions to find out how best to build up air strength in China. He told the public why it could not be done by transport planes. Reasons...
...least 90 Axis ships have been sunk in the central Mediterranean during the last four months: many more have probably been sunk. Royal Navy submarines sank the majority of them. Allied fighters have harassed the air transport lines. Allied bombers from Malta and the African mainland have incessantly bombed Axis ports, transshipment points and railroads in Italy, Sicily and on the receiving end in Tunisia. Since they lost Tripoli, Rommel's forces in southern Tunisia have been supplied by the overworked coastal railroad between Bizerte and Gabes, and this too has often been bombed. But Allied attacks have neither...
Among other things, the board recommended joint private-governmental partnership in various post-war industries, particularly aluminum, magnesium, shipbuilding and aircraft--consolidation of railroads into a limited number of regional systems to provide for "efficient and low-cost post-war traffic"--express highways, and expanded and integrated air transport...
...Salt Lake City rose to her most heroic moment for a new skipper, Captain Ernest G. ("Shorty") Small, on the night of Oct. 11-12. That night she was hunting destroyers which had been reinforcing the Japs on Guadalcanal. She found more: six cruisers, six destroyers, a transport and auxiliaries. First, her ten guns set a light cruiser ablazing. Twenty rounds from her crack batteries were enough to finish a heavy cruiser, blowing up its entire midsection. Other U.S. warcraft and the Salt Lake City joined fire to sink one of the auxiliaries. Then the Salt Lake City returned...