Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chiang's troops could take Manchuria without U.S. help, Washington had no problem. But Washington knew how desperately Chiang's armies needed equipment, how lack of transport virtually immobilized his main forces. The U.S. would not be content to see enemies of the Chinese Government acquire Manchuria, which can produce far more arms than all the rest of China. Control of Manchuria by Chinese Communists would constitute a major power shift in the Far East...
...which the army wanted to use for storing flying fortresses during the war, will be out on the field for the first time since 1942 at the Yale game, G. David Schine '49, leader of the Harvard University Band, said yesterday. The drum, which requires a special truck to transport it, is pulled by two men and beaten...
Every lesson of the war, said Doolittle, had demonstrated the primary importance of air power. "The Navy had the transport to make the invasion of Japan possible; the ground forces had the power to make it successful; and the B6-29s made it unnecessary." Alabama's Senator Hill was so struck by this statement that he had Doolittle repeat...
...spring there would be daily scheduled flights from India and Burma to Chungking and beyond, but now they could follow a more southerly course over the "low-Hump," by way of Myit-kyina. By year's end, Air Forces personnel in the India-China Division of the Air Transport Command will be down to around 9,000, from a peak of 35,000 (including 4,712 pilots...
Unofficial estimates were that 3,000 Allied transport and tactical aircraft had been lost among those jagged peaks. But for this price, the U.S. had backed China (and U.S. units in China) with invaluable aid: 78.000 tons went over the Hump in the peak month of July...