Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack on Bougainville with their surprise invasion of the Treasury Islands, he was in the first landing wave. ("That deal turned my hair snow white.") And when our Marines landed on Bougainville itself November 1, Chickering was once again on the job-watched from the bridge of his transport as our men swarmed ashore ("They made you proud to be an American")-was permitted to join them right after they had won their beachhead...
...Correspondents are supposed to be an intrepid lot," Chickering cabled after the Treasury landing, "and at first I was afraid I might jeopardize the reputation of my fellows-for as our landing boat started away from the transport I crouched trembling behind the engine house like the Cowardly Lion. Before long I found I was not the only one feeling that way. Leathery men beside me clenched their guns with sweaty hands, gritted their teeth and stared with frantic concentration at the shoulders of the men ahead. I tried a feeble wink at one of them. He winked back; then...
...minor Cabinet shift. Into Woolton's vacated place went handsome, plodding Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, resident Minister in Washington in charge of supply. His Washington post will be taken by rugged "Big Ben" Smith, 64, ex-sailor, ex-dockworker, ex-organizer of Ernest Bevin's Transport and General Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into little, vague Alfred Duff...
When a certain troop transport left Seattle some time ago, three of the crew were caught after they had slipped ashore to make forbidden last-minute telephone calls. Checking up, military intelligence officers called the same numbers, to find out what information had been spilled. They found plenty...
Posing as cigaret-company representatives, they said they wanted to send each man a carton as a gift. A wife, a mother, and a girl friend quickly supplied the information that their men had just sailed on a transport. One woman cheerily volunteered its destination...