Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foggy rain blanketed San Francisco harbor as a big U.S. transport moved under the Golden Gate Bridge. But for most of the ship's 2,000 jampacked passengers, it was as if the sun were shining: they were homecoming veterans of Guadalcanal, New Guinea and many a naval battle. For some 90 young women, however, it was a fearsome moment. They were the Australian wives and sweethearts of U.S. G.I. Joes, 6,000 miles away from their Down Under homes-and about to meet their in-laws...
...Shouldn't Speak to Me." A Marine lieutenant who had been on the transport told one young Aussie's tragic story: When he spoke to her one day aboard ship, she had said to him: "You shouldn't be speaking to me, you know," explained that her compatriots shunned her because she had married a Negro soldier. Bound for his family in the deep South, she had thought, until then, that things would be different in the "melting pot of the world...
That night 500 men were taken in, 30 killed, 33 injured. Of 54 gliders dispatched, 37 arrived, eight landed safely elsewhere, nine among the enemy. Six nights later transport planes had shuttled into newly built airfields thousands of men, more than 500,000 Ib. of stores, 1,183 rnules, 175 ponies...
...cruisers were under the command of British Rear Admiral Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley, but, Admiral King carefully points out, Crutchley was not present because he was attending a conference aboard the transport flagship of Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner...
...battle theaters-China-Burma-India-got its first clear hearing on the U.S. air last week. The Blue Network program, Yanks in the Orient, was the first of 13 programs being recorded on the spot by U.S. Army Public Relations and flown to the U.S. by Air Transport Command.* It told the story of the Rescue Squadron of A.T.C.'s India-China wing...