Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler presided. He flatly refused to allow Paulus to retreat. The Sixth Army, he shouted, should form a gigantic "hedgehog," capable of beating back all attacks until succored by an army pushing from the Caucasus. Air transport would supply the hedgehog with food and ammunition...
...returned from Tarawa on a transport which brought out many wounded. The Marine officer in the bunk below me said that first night, 'Can you see?' I said yes, I could see. He said, 'I can't see-I will never see again...
...widest) was full of shipping: sampans, inter-island craft, seagoing merchantmen, tankers, warships. Said a U.S. pilot: "It was a dive bomber's paradise, and we turned it into a Japanese hell." The score after ten minutes of concentrated attack: two light cruisers, one oiler, three cargo transports sunk; one troop transport, three cargo transports damaged; grounded planes and shore installations hard...
...fuel, ammunition and repair. A.S.C. depots make any needed plane modifications which would otherwise slow up a factory production line, fit out every plane for flight or shipment overseas. A.S.C. also acts as an express company for all air freight in the U.S. flown by the Air Transport Command. It even publishes an illustrated catalogue of surplus or obsolete items (TIME...
...planes, A.S.C. experts watch for parts which wear quickly, to be ready for replacement demands. By the time a new model (like the B29) is in the field, the parts it will need are ready to hand. In the Attu campaign, parts flown in by the Air Transport Command arrived before the planes for which they were ordered...