Word: troopship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troopship Samaria unloaded 980 Army veterans at Halifax last week. At Brussels, the last 55 Canadian soldiers on the Continent (except for 44 deserters) packed their bags and headed for England. The Canadian Army overseas, 286,387 strong at its wartime peak, was now down to less than 2,000 officers & men. Of these, 650 have asked for discharges in the United Kingdom (because they want to live there). The rest, said Ottawa, will be home by the end of January. Canada's military representatives in Europe after that: a handful of permanent officers...
...Passed, subject to Senate approval, a bill legalizing the immigration of 1) teenage Giovanni (Johnny) Camera and Anthony di Ina, troopship stowaways, 2) 31-year-old Masuyo Sudo Cromely, Japanese wife of a U.S. newsman, 3) 37-year-old Virginia Casardi, U.S.-born spouse of an Italian diplomat. Sent back to the Immigration and Naturalization Committee for further study was a similar "request of asylum" bill for three Russian stowaways, all adults...
...cold winter's dawn this week the grey and battered troopship Argentina hove into New York harbor after a nightmare voyage across the Atlantic. The passengers were 451 British wives of American G.I.s, and their 175 children. Nine days before, they had left Southampton alternately singing There'll Always Be an England and God Bless America...
...being done," he said gently. He assured the wives that they had not been forgotten. Mrs. Louis Sherman, jiggling a baby over her head, broke in to ask why at least a few wives could not be put aboard every troopship...
...seas of the Far East during the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion. He read "Mahan's classic on sea power. During World War I he commanded a troopship carrying U.S. soldiers to France. He also met and gave some occasional friendly counsel to the young Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the years between wars he studied naval ordnance, served as chief of two bureaus (Ordnance and Navigation) and finally, in 1937, by appointment of his old friend Roosevelt, became the Navy's top dog-Chief of Naval Operations. The Chippewa Indians made...