Word: transporting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...section is under the command of James P. Gillespie of New York, a Yale graduate. The second transport section, consisting of fifty men and twenty ammunition trucks will leave tomorrow...
...American Corps is considering taking up transport work so that when the United States troops go abroad the Corps will be able to take care of the transportation for such an army. As a means of fitting itself to carry on efficiently this work, the Service expects to organize in Paris a school for instruction in the organization and manipulation of motor-truck units...
...became so great that the Americans in Turkey persuaded the United States to intervene and Russia was requested by the United States to take charge of our interests in Eastern Turkey. Russia at once sent an army within striking distance of Van. In order to make it possible to transport the cannon and supplies over the deep snow carpets were collected which could be used to form a road-bed. Seeing these warlike preparations, the massacre was postponed for the time being. On receiving news from the Kaiser that the great European war could not then be advantageously started...
...accurate knowledge as possible of the probability of occurrence of severe cold; of sudden thaws; of heavy rains; of great heat; of high winds--all this is a very essential element in planning a campaign or in organizing a single engagement. Picked troops, discipline, a well-organized system of transport, proper clothing--in short, all that goes to make up the most efficient military organization, is of supreme importance. But we must recognize the fact that the weather is by no means the least important of the many external factors which control military campaigns...
...ambulances went to the Vosges and their work was so satisfactory that the French government asked for ten more ambulances. When this was done the Vosges section took charge of the work in the important sector extending from Metzeral to the famous Hartmanswellerkopf, where it opened up to motor transport the hitherto inaccessible mountain "postes de secours." This new work was made possible by the use of Fords. During the same month the French asked for a new section to send to Pont-a-Mousson. Following this a section was detailed to Dunkirk. Gradually the number of sections has been...