Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fuel. Army releases end the threat of a real crisis, but the Solid Fuels Administration reports the shortage may continue to some extent. Fuel oil should be no problem, unless transport makes...
...Canal Zone the voice on the bullhorn of the transport General Harry Taylor blared: "Now hear this! Watch the shadow of the ship." Then the Taylor's skipper, Captain Leonard B. Jaudon, added: "As it turns toward New York...
...halfway halt at Ie Shima, one of the Jap crewmen appeared with a bouquet for "peace and friendship." Not an arm was bent in salute. Gaping G.I.s showed more interest in the booted, fur-hatted Jap pilots than in the stubby little men walking over to the Army Transport Command plane (a C-54 Skymaster) assigned to carry them to Manila...
...Troops home from Europe and on furlough preparatory to redeployment will not be sent to the Pacific. One or two divisions already assembled on the West Coast for Pacific service will go as planned. Troops assembled in Europe for direct transport to the Pacific will come to the U.S. instead...
...General Mobilization." Meanwhile, practical defense measures continued. The Japanese Government issued a national appeal to Japan's transport workers to be ready to sacrifice their "very lives" to maintain vital transportation services. Radio Tokyo broadcast that the "general mobilization for production" would continue. In a joint statement the military and civilian authorities emphasized the old order that all Japanese "guilty of disquieting speech and behavior, also those spreading rumors" would be "strictly punished according to the military code...