Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transport services of the Navy and Air Force had been merged into the Military Air Transport Service, and the Berlin airlift was a dramatic demonstration of what M.A.T.S. could accomplish...
Last week, Secretary Forrestal took two more steps toward unity. He ordered unification of recruiting, he ordered the Navy to handle all military transport on the seas, and considered assigning the Army to handle all transport on land...
...eyewitness report of Mukden's last hours, were in Shanghai. The General agreed to a next morning departure. Birns and Rowan boarded a civilian cargo plane at Shanghai, but a ground haze delayed the landing at Nanking until 10 a.m., almost three hours after General Chou's transport plane was to leave for the Suchow battlefront. Gruin spent the interval conning the Chinese airmen into waiting for the overdue plane. At length, the TIME-LIFE team got off for Suchow and their report back to Gruin not only established the fact that the Communists were winning the battle...
...Rubber Planes?" When he landed again at Suchow, evacuation jitters had already seized the troops awaiting air transport. Soldiers, ignoring orders, were fighting their way on to planes already on the field. Intermingled in the disorderly jam of troops, women dressed in soldiers' uniforms struggled to keep squalling infants from getting crushed. "My God," drawled a tall Texan, "they must think these planes are made of rubber...
Plievier's finest writing is in description of single horror scenes--the mobs of wounded men on the Gumrak landing strip, who storm each Junkers transport as it lands in the desperate hope of being flown to safety; the freezing corridors of a field hospital, where the wounded are left to die because there is no medicine; the group of high-ranking generals squatting in a dugout with nothing to do but talk because their units have been wiped out; the early-morning battle in the snow, in which an infantry battalion is shot down to a man between...