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...manufacture of passenger cars was shut off in 1942, not started again until six weeks ago-too late to ease the present crisis. Belatedly, this spring, the Army also ordered 1,600 troop cars. WPB has issued high priorities for the manufacture of 664 passenger cars, but the bulk of them will not be delivered till December at the earliest. If deployment continues to move faster than its schedule, the Army will have to dip into the civilian supply again...
...would also free 895 sleeping cars for the Army, to add to its present 4,055, which include 1,239 troop sleepers owned by Defense Plant Corp. It would leave traveling civilians with what was described as a "rock bottom" of 3,000 such cars. Another 1,200 troop sleepers were to be built by the end of the year, but none of these would be ready before September...
From the weird, camouflaged concrete of a Jap-built field the troop carriers took off. With them went Colonel Felix ("Snatch") Dupont's supply gliders (being used for the first time in the Philippines), loaded with pack howitzers, jeeps, radios and supplies. Over the flatlands at Luzon's tip the parachutists blossomed from their transports. Gliders slid into the high grass unopposed. Said wit nesses : like maneuvers on the village green...
...Netherlands, sporting a heavy tan and a white "Dutch boy" cap, arrived in Manhattan aboard the Queen Elizabeth. Then she caught a train for Ottawa, to gather up her three children and take them home. Tennessee's Congressman Harold H. Earthman, a fellow-passenger on the troop-packed ship, burbled to reporters: "She is superb. She is the most democratic princess I have ever known in my life...
...first 4,000 homing servicemen to disembark at Halifax had complaints aplenty. They had been jampacked in the troop ship Louis Pasteur, had had only two meals a day, had slept on tables and . floors. Said Airman Bert Filliter of Moncton, who had spent three years in a German prison camp: "We were prisoners of war, but they shoved us into this like fish." The returning soldiers reported that 100 men had refused to sail on the Pasteur because of conditions...