Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no transportation for the delivery of food from the farms. Members of the Philippine Motor Transport Association appealed to President Sergio Osmeña's Government for help. Early in 1941 they had turned over to the U.S. Army some 2,000-odd busses. Now these were gone, and unless new busses could be brought in, highway travel would remain at a standstill...
...bald-headed John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 53, boss of the Twelfth Air Force in Italy (and no kin to the late, famed G.O.P. Speaker); and articulate, blue-eyed, fast-talking Harold Lee ("Bombardment") George, 51, who runs the world's biggest airline, the Army's Air Transport Command...
Spearheading the invasion of Burma, Errol Flynn's company of Rangers parachutes behind the Japanese lines and destroys an enemy radar station. So far so good, but getting back is another story. Heading for a clearing to be picked up by a transport plane, they find themselves cut off by the Japanese. Directed to another map reference they fight their way to it through half the Japs in Burma and arrive to meet the Allied glider fleet...
Toward Stability. Last week, too, a new attack opened on China's desperate economic front. One evening a silvery Douglas transport came down at a Chungking airfield. Out stepped its chief passenger, the Generalissimo, and a bulky hitchhiker, onetime OPA Boss Leon Henderson. The American, en route from Europe, had met the Generalissimo by chance in Kunming. But he was no chance visitor. The Generalissimo had asked him to study China's agonizing inflation...
...played in public before. Liaison between air, ground and sea forces was faulty. In one of the war's most tragic errors, U.S. antiaircraft guns blasted down a covey of troop-laden planes like fat ducks. Because of this, the scheduled glider runs were hastily called off. Other transport pilots missed landmarks and sowed their hapless paratroops up & down the coast, miles from their objectives. In consequence, the parachutists came down in so many places that the alarmed Germans thought they were being hit with a fantastically large skyborne force, and milled around in such indecision that the surface...