Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Landing Craft, Infantry) 157 ft. long, 200-troop capacity, with multiple ramps for fast debarkation...
...Landing Vehicle, Tracked), amphibious "Water Buffalo," 21 ft. long, 20-troop capacity, for storming swamps, coral reefs, otherwise inaccessible places...
Bleak Dawn. Feebly the Budapest Government resisted. Premier Nicholas Kallay had asked the meaning of troop concentrations along the Austrian border, but the troops were over the line before the official answer came through. By the time the new German plenipotentiary, Dr. Edmund Veehsenmayer, called at the Foreign Office to explain suavely that Germany could not risk the rise of a Badoglio, German SS men were already stopping trains and hauling out Jews for "questioning." The Germans had long enjoyed the right to send 40 military trains a day through Hungary, fly their planes wherever they chose. Thus, when...
...Southeast Asia Commander Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten made his boldest move since arriving in the Far East five months ago. Some 150 miles south of Stilwell, near the key Japanese base of Myitkyina he sent U.S.-manned gliders and troop transports, filled with British Indian troops, to land back of enemy lines. It was the first Allied airborne operation of the Asiatic...
...year when the railroads had hoped that their problems would ease. They had hoped to get through the war without a serious car shortage. For 1944 WPB has promised steel enough to build 60,000 freight cars and 1,200 locomotives. Pullman has delivered the last of 1,200 troop sleepers...