Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the Sea. Victory of the week-even greater in immediate results than the pulling of the Limon plug-came when U.S. fighter bombers, P-40s and 47s, jumped a reinforcement convoy of three Japanese transports and a destroyer off Masbate Island, in the Visayan Sea northwest of Leyte. The Yankee fighters barreled straight in, let the bombs go at close range, then strafed the crowded transport decks while screaming soldiers leaped overboard to get away from the spreading fires and the strafing...
...destroyer and two transports burned and sank; the third transport was beached. General MacArthur's headquarters estimated that 3,500 of 6,000 troops headed for the Leyte battle lines had been killed or drowned. Two days later another convoy was smashed, with 2,000 men killed. That brought to 17,000 the total of Japanese lost at sea in disastrous efforts to reinforce the Leyte garrison. But other reinforcements have slipped through. And even the 17,000 lost showed the determination of the enemy to continue forcing every possible delay into Douglas MacArthur's Philippine timetable...
...this week the Air Transport Command's North Atlantic division, in ceremonies at bases from Maine to Iceland, will mark the opening of its second winter of regularly scheduled operations. A flight to Europe, winter or summer, is now as routine an operation as a hop from New York to San Francisco...
Crossroads of the Atlantic. On the North Atlantic division the A.T.C. is doing two jobs: 1) maintaining and flying the transport route to Europe for high priority passengers, mail and freight; 2) guiding the fleets of bombers direct into the European theater...
...brunt of reform lay on the shoulders of Dr. Wong. His knottiest problem: 1) to find transport to get raw materials to factories and finished goods to the front; 2) to prevent financial inflation from cramping his production style...