Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...December 1917 Private McGonegal left Hoboken with 12,500 others aboard the Leviathan, seabound on her maiden voyage as a troop transport under the American flag...
...hacked a path through the jungles, Lieut. Stanley William Akers whistled. Two days before, he had bailed out of a crippled U.S. Army transport. Twice he had escaped from quicksands. Tomorrow, according to his compass calculations, he should reach an Allied base...
Only rapid, bulk transportation can save hundreds of thousands from death. Transport is not available in the quantities needed. But, despite, the unavoidable handicaps, the Chungking Government can tighten administrative measures, drive out hoarders, eliminate the corruption which impedes relief efforts...
...will U.S. shipowners meet air transport's bid for passenger business? Barred from flying planes of their own, and forced to wait months while troopships are converted to passenger liners, the ship operators' postwar outlook for passenger business is dismal. For many foreign-flag ship operators will probably be permitted by their governments to establish their own air service...
...amidst the quack of bena birds and the coo of kura kura pigeons, dressed in khaki pants and shirt, he taught the new amphibious doctrine, which he was learning himself, to the officers under his heterogeneous command: air officers, marine colonels, brigadier generals, destroyer captains, PT commanders, crusty transport skippers...