Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transport en route to Japan a Marine officer tried to explain that to his men. The inevitable question: "You mean we can't say the Japs are dirty little blank blanks...
...Japs knew Boyington well: he had taunted them over his radio as he roared in for kills. They gave him special treatment. Last week, after Commander Harold E. Stassen greeted him aboard a U.S. destroyer transport, he told about it: "The first ten days were the hardest. They wouldn't let anybody touch me to help me. Every day they blindfolded me and threw me in a truck to take me into town, then questioned me all day. They would make me walk on my bad leg, and shove me with a rifle butt to make sure...
...General Smiles. General of the Army Douglas Mac Arthur was a different man. As he stepped from his transport plane Bataan his sternly sculptured features relaxed in an easy smile. The austere man who used to forget faces called first names, clasped hands, and complimented the military band. Later he dined with his junior officers; he had not done so since...
Clerks packed up documents for the return. Lights burned late as administrators wrestled with the problems of transport and relief, and with the larger problem of adjusting a nation to a new era. At the top of the pyramid of state moved the alert, taut, indefatigable Generalissimo, the first architect of victory and now the first hope of peace...
...Travel to France and Holland is discouraged because of the shortage of housing, transport and food in those countries. All travelers were warned that they might not be able to get home from Europe for many months (returning troops will fill all available shipping space...