Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...package of plastic printing plates flies 12,000 airline miles from Chicago to New Delhi. There the Army puts the plates on the presses of the famous Hindustan Times (published by Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third son). As fast as copies come off the press Army transport planes rush them west to Karachi, south to Agra, east to Calcutta and on to our airfields in Assam. There some of the copies are piled into Army trucks bound for the new Ledo Road that American boys are building across Burma into China. Others are loaded into little Army liaison...
Still other copies of TIME are part of the vital supplies that unarmed, unescorted transport planes carry across Zero-infested Burma and over 17,000-ft. Himalayan passes to Kunming in China. These copies vault the top of the world and pass over "the worst stretch of country covered by any of the world's farflung war transport operations" to reach General Claire Chennault and his airmen. And every week 50 more copies reach key Chinese leaders via TIME Correspondent Teddy White in Chungking...
Toughest in the Book. Traditionally, Marines have always been amphibious: they fight on the land and on the sea. They man Navy guns and they shoot Army rifles. But the toughest job in any military operation lies in that half-&-half area between the troop transport and the dry land of the defended enemy beach. Said a Marine sergeant who waded into Tarawa through the soprano whine...
Since its first big counterattack before Moscow in 1941, the Shtab had plotted a dozen major and scores of minor offensives. From these a definite pattern had emerged. A drive's duration depended on weather, terrain, German defenses, human endurance, condition of roads, ability of the transport system to feed the offensive...
...moment the rice would go around. Bengal's harvest had been good, Viceroy Lord Wavell's speed-up of food transport effective, foreign charity helpful. But all this was amelioration, not solution. The blown and shriveled masses who had not starved to death in the famine areas of northeastern India were scourged now by pestilence, by cholera, dysentery, malaria, dropsy, pneumonia. The famine had sharpened India's old and limitless needs: more rice, in steady supply; milk for her children; medicines for her sick; shelter for her homeless. Without these, thus far merely trickling in, there would...