Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time and the Fortress. Hitler was bound to guard the Festung Europa (the European Fortress). He sent troops into France-the only major Axis troop movement reliably reported up to last week. German soldiers also filtered into Italy. He punched as many soldiers as possible into Tunisia, to fight a delaying action...
Some Jap Navy units came back about 24 hours later to pave the way for troop landings. Halsey's land-based airmen went out to meet the transports, sank eight of twelve. The remaining Jap transports went on toward Guadalcanal. The U.S. warships closed in again. Next morning four more transports were found beached at Tassafaronga, seven and a half miles west of Henderson Field. Presumably some of their troops had landed under fire during the night. But the Jap armada had fled...
...plane he could find, including old, outmoded B18 bombers, early version of four-motored Liberators left over from Java, Lockheed and Douglas planes made in the U.S. for the Indies' K.N.I.L.M. airlines. George Kenney then flew thousands of soldiers to New Guinea. It was the first big airborne troop-transport job undertaken by the U.S. in a theater of operations...
...yards came Axis ships seized last winter in U.S. ports, most of them hideously mutilated; came limping torpedoed and shelled ships with ghastly scars; came those with heavy-weather damage-for the winds and storms still do their work, too; came others for conversion from sleek passenger liners to troop carriers; hundreds were fitted with degaussing apparatus, armed with guns. Some repair jobs were on such a large scale that the ships were practically rebuilt, many were completely re-engined. In one month 783 ships were under repair in 40 yards...
...Orleans they had plenty to cheer about last week. Andrew Jackson Higgins, their No. 1 boatbuilder, money-maker and hoopla artist, had practically landed one of the biggest single transport-plane contracts in U.S. history: about $180,000,000 for 1,200 huge, twin-engined, all-plywood troop-and tank-carrying planes. This was good news for Louisiana's Andrew Higgins-the man who took ribbing aplenty when his much-touted Liberty Ship contract was canceled last summer. It also meant that Higgins had stolen a march on his friend and archrival, Henry Kaiser, the Wizard of the West...