Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flooded crater of an extinct volcano which gives deep water almost to the shore. In peacetime Rabaul's tiny wharf was used chiefly by island trading ships of two companies, W. R. Carpenter & Co. and Burns Philp & Co. Now the harbor is a great Japanese naval and troop-transport center. From it, short and efficient supply lines radiate to forward bases above both shoulders of Australia-a score of spots such as Kupang on Timor and Gizo in the Solomons. From those forward bases, which like Rabaul have come in for a dose of heavy bombing, the Japs would...
WASHINGTON--American airmen, hammering Jap positions northwest of U. S.-held Guadalcanal, have staged their 78th raid on the big enemy base at Munda and scored bomb hits on a transport and corvette off Vella Lavella Island, the Navy disclosed today. Both of the enemy vessels were left burning...
...course space on the trans-Pacific transport planes is always so precious that we could not even consider asking the Army to fly thousands of copies of TIME across 7,000 miles of ocean each week; but within a few hours after Sherrod's cable arrived we flashed back word to him to sound out the possibility of printing a special edition of TIME in Australia for General MacArthur...
...dream, for Hardie Robbins last week it was not a dream at all, but complete, three-dimensional, here-&-now reality. Private Hardie Robbins had lain last Christmas in Washington's Walter Reed General Hospital, his hands healing from the fearful burns they suffered when the Army transport U.S.S. Bliss was torpedoed off North Africa. The President's wife, on one of her numerous hospital rounds, had stopped to chat with him. What would he like best to do, she asked, once his bandages came off? Hardie Robbins guessed he would rather play the piano than anything else-once...
...remaining graduates will be on the ocean blue before long, heading for organizations in a foreign theatre. Twelve to fifteen men may go to Headquarters Army Air Forces in Washington; other such groups will be assigned to organizations of the Flying Training Command and the Air Transport Command, and a few officers will go to stations under the Technical Training Command, which is the branch of their Forces operating the Statistical School and scores of other schools where technical ground-course training is given...