Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he left home last winter on the first big troop convoy, Sherrod had to tell his wife there was a good chance he would be taken prisoner just as our correspondents Carl and Shelley Mydans had been before him. He wasn't captured-but lots of other things happened...
...Hitler is ready. Or so, at least, the Allies must assume. Last week Nazi Elite Guards and a two-mile column of tanks, troop-carriers and artillery paraded down the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Dr. Goebbels practically invited British and U.S. troops ("those MacArthurs") to invade coastal Europe (see col. j). D.N.B. reported in fearsome detail the strength, depth and impregnability of the Nazi's coast defenses. With all of these noises the Germans were cooking propaganda. But R.A.F. reconnaissance, R.A.F. losses over northern France and underground reports from Occupied Europe all attest to strong German armies waiting...
...Like troop parachuting and dive-bombing-ingeniously adapted to the Nazi war of movement-the glider pickup was distinctly a U.S. development, an outgrowth of a mail pickup service which has been pure routine for three years on the routes of a Wilmington company, All American Aviation...
...Minus. The principal loss to the U.S. was some 600 miles west of the scene of battle: the three islands of Attu, Kiska and Agattu, seized by the Japs. The presence of troop transports since then indicate that the Japanese have been digging in on those craggy isles astride one main sea route between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Kiska alone gave Japan a harbor, a potential submarine base, enough flat terrain for an air base within bomber range of Dutch Harbor and other Alaskan bases...
Hundred-Tonners. A WPB air-cargo committee has explored the possible construction of 100-ton winged trucks. The Department of Commerce wants 800 all-steel freighters (stainless steel is still at a premium). The Army has contracted for lots of DC-3s, hundreds of 25-ton Curtiss twin-engined troop-toting Commandos...