Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PHILIPPINES Hard to Get Long ago the Japanese dubbed William Henry Donald "the evil spirit of China." They offered angry and growing rewards for his capture, dead or alive. Once they almost got him-when Japanese Zeros attacked his transport plane over China-but his pilot escaped into a cloud bank. Last week it turned out that they had had him for more than three years. Still they could not find...
Definition of No. 1 air priority (Army) Transport Command): reserved for White House personnel, generals (two-wtar or better),* and personnel on missions of extreme military urgency...
LeRoy's eyes popped and his temperature rose when he saw what was remaining aboard the plane. It was a huge crate occupying three-seats-worth of space in the transport. In it was a big (115 lbs.), tawny dog. On the crate, sure enough, was a No. 1 priority sticker. The crate also bore a label signifying that the beast with-in was the property of Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, the son of the President...
Another spectacular abuse of wartime travel was reported last week by the London Daily Herald, which said that, for a lark, Colonel Glenn Myer, U.S.A.A.F. commander of a troop carrier base in England, had ferried two titled English ladies to Brussels in a U.S. transport plane. Penalties: the ladies were fined $240 apiece for violating British defense regulations; Colonel Myer was summarily recalled...
...fight, while armor and SS infantry pulled out. In some sectors, the punching, pushing Allies encountered aggressive "counter-reconnaissance screening forces"-in others, only mines in the snow, unguarded roadblocks and the eternal booby traps. Around Bastogne, Rundstedt counterattacked persistently to shield the swelling stream of German tanks and transport flowing east through Houffalize and Saint-Vith...