Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moaned. "I'm not trying to alibi a silly statement," he said, "but I can't even ride. Oh, why didn't I keep my big mouth shut?" As he spoke, there was a lot of commotion. A destroyer-transport had come alongside, put a big packing case into a sling, sent it over to the Missouri. It was the saddle...
Three flyers climbed stiffly down from a C-47 transport at Chungking's Seven Dragon Slope airdrome. They were thin, and their faces were old and unsmiling. To fresh young U.S. flyers on the field, they seemed like apparitions from another war, another age. They had only now ended a flight begun from the deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet three years, four months and one week before. They were some of Jimmy Doolittle's men who had bombed Japan...
...transport was oven-hot before it left the baked, gleaming coral of the runway. Fifteen of the Japs took off their heavy boots and lolled in the plush, adjustable seats-even more luxurious than the famous "MacArthur chairs." The 16th kept his boots on. He was grey, roundheaded Lieut. General Torashiro Kawabe, vice chief of the Army General Staff...
...trained Chinese armies were readied to reoccupy key cities as soon as the Japanese gave up. U.S. air forces stood by to transport them. The Central Government appointed mayors for Canton, Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow, Peiping, Tientsin and a governor (General Hsiung Shi-hui) for Manchuria's strategic Kwantung Peninsula...
Bright Future. War-fattened Republic Aviation Corp. announced that it would retain between 4,000 and 5,000 workers fulltime, many of them to turn out its new commercial transport. All experimental contracts for war craft have been retained, and certain new military models will continue in production. The Glenn L. Martin Co. announced $180 million worth of peacetime contracts for military and commercial aircraft-enough to keep their Baltimore factory busy on a 40-hour work week until September...