Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LaGuardia Field a chaplain led a dozen wounded soldiers in prayer alongside the transport plane that had brought them from torn Europe. In New York harbor a police launch sped to investigate a rumor that had swept through the Wall Street crowds: a German submarine had surfaced, flying a white flag. What the harbor police found: a Navy vessel, with the sailors' Monday wash...
...Army could promise was that it would do its best. Converted cargo and grain ships will be pressed into a shuttle service; passenger ships and transports will be used; 800 transport planes, capable of flying back 50,000 men a month, have also been set aside for the job. But it will be a year, said the Army, before the last lucky 1,300,000 is home...
...greetings to TIME'S Pacific Pony Edition "for making this war i) bearable 2) understandable for those of us out here" on Saipan-see cut. . . . "You will be interested to hear that TIME was flown in and distributed to the Marines fighting on Iwo Jima the first day transport planes landed on the island. TIME brought many fellows 'home' if only for a short time," writes Lieutenant Philip Schneider of The Leatherneck's Pacific staff...
Getting ready for San Francisco, Senator Vandenberg followed diplomatic custom and bought himself a black Homburg. He flew out in 15 hours in an Army transport with Fellow Delegate Virginia Gildersleeve, Delegation Adviser John Foster Dulles, the State Department's Hamilton Fish Armstrong. His wife went by train. In San Francisco they have a two-room suite at the Fairmont Hotel, from which, over the rooftops of Chinatown, they...
...naval forces had taken losses, too: five destroyers,*a destroyer transport, two ammunition ships, two mine-craft, four smaller vessels. The cost in men in the Ryukyus (Okinawa) operation told a truly surprising story: 989 officers and men of the fleet killed, 2,220 wounded. 1,491 missing; ashore, 478 Army men and marines killed, 2,457 wounded, 260 missing...