Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, a ship that had recently been carrying G.I.s sailed for Argentina with a load of pleasure-bound passengers and commercial cargo. Overtaxed transportation facilities in the U.S. had become a bottleneck. Forty-six Army nurses arrived in San Antonio after a harrowing three-day trip on a troop train from California, sharing two chair cars with G.I.s. One day's food ration was a piece of bread and jelly and a small portion of stew. Half the time their cars had no water. ("Our washroom simply stank.") But at least they got home. In West Coast ports, thousands...
...gear. Now it was time again to pick up the Sixth, which claims to be "the most airborne army in the world." It was a bigger job than ever: at Chikiang the Sixth had been swollen to more than 33,000 men. The Tenth Air Force's 443rd Troop Carrier Group loaded 45 to 50 of the men into each of its C-46s, flew them over central China's great blue lakes to reoccupy Nanking, where Japan's puppets had reigned. It was all done in 22 days. In the same period, the Air Transport Command...
...letter pointedly asked if the delay was not caused by failure to use all available merchant marine ships, speculated on whether enough idle bottoms had been pressed into service as troop carriers, wondered if the Army had not failed to "act aggressively." The soldier editors ap pealed to Washington newspapermen to search out "the truth...
...truth was that the Army, still ahead of its redeployment schedule, was working with might & main to get troops home. The Army was being torn apart in answer to public demand, and would have to be rebuilt from the ground up after redeployment had been completed. Last week the War Department announced that by February all troops eligible for redeployment will be home from Atlantic theaters; by next June, from the Pacific. To speed the job, ten aircraft carriers, 26 cruisers, and six battleships will soon be run into service as troop carriers...
...What excuses have the savages responsible for this outrage?" demands the indignant writer. The same theme song that the judicial authorities of the United Nations have heard from every German prisoner accused of war crimes. "All that the Austrian judge could say," declares the astonished storm troop periodical, was "I wasn't at fault. I had to do it. I had to obey orders...