Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the storm abated. The armada crept under the lee of Sicily's shore. Just before the hour, all the ships were at the "transport area." Every single ship of the thousand had been accounted for. At a signal, the invasion began...
...precision, and Admiral Hewitt brought to his task one of the most brilliant mathematical minds the Navy ever had. To his natural bent he had added some formidable experience. Last July he was given the job of planning the Moroccan landings. He had to design armored force landings, organize transport divisions and train 3,000 amphibious boat crews. He had to send his huge force across the Atlantic and still have it rendezvous at the exact time for the landings. His success brought him this, the biggest job of his life...
...mechanic stepped from a transport plane at a captured Sicilian airdrome, shouted to the others in his unit: "If you see any natives, just say 'Come state?' and they'll say 'Bene, Bene.' " His name was Italian, his parents, in America, were Italian, and he added: "I've got a grandmother somewhere around here...
...turbosupercharger that, with 62 ft. of aluminum air ducts, crams the belly of the ship. The plane now creeping into R.A.F.-Eighth Air Force communiques is the fourth model. It looks something like a huge,* streamlined milk bottle. It is half as heavy as a loaded 21-passenger transport, is armed with eight .50-calibre machine guns, is heavily armor-plated, is powered with a 2,000-h.p. Ford-built Pratt & Whitney engine...
...stage was set last week for the hottest political fight U.S. airlines have ever tangled in. The prize: postwar international air transport. Last week, 16 (out of 19) airlines plunked $250,000 into a brand-new committee to fight for "free" worldwide competition. Their aim: to blast out of its top-dog spot Pan American Airways, which monopolized prewar international air travel...