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...vehicle staging area (Armyese for any place where troops and supplies are readied for overseas), women workers grinned through their grease. With spray gun and grease gun. the women coated the glass of vehicles destined for deck load so no warning reflection would betray the convoy, smeared the underparts for protection against salt spray. They drained gas tanks and radiators, checked and charged batteries, sealed all engine openings...
From transports standing between the destroyers and the battleships came swarms of landing boats, dashing through the hot red tracer fire from enemy shore batteries and machine guns, grinding to a halt on the steep shores, discharging their men, then hastening back to the transports for another load. Engineers and assault infantrymen led the way ashore, scurried to cover, set up machine guns, charted underwater obstacles at the landing points, then started clearing away barbed wire with Bangalore torpedoes...
...backbreaking burden of U.S. railroads is their mountain of fixed charges (bond interest, equipment rentals, taxes, sinking fund requirements), a load greater than that of any other U.S. industry. Last week, the ICC released startling 1943 figures: for the first time in U.S. history, along with dividends and other income the railroads earned enough ($596,228,149) in the first five months to pay fixed charges for the entire year...
...four daylight raids on Germany and three on Occupied France, the Eighth Air Force dropped "between 2,000 and 3,000 tons." (Correspondents thought it was nearer 3,000 tons.) Heaviest U.S. load on a single target: 500 tons, concentrated on a synthetic rubber plant...
...dumps. Flame-twisted tank fragments, broken rifles, smashed helmets are worthless except as scrap for the steel furnaces of U.S. and Britain. Most of this junk of battle may stay where it is in the scrap piles of Tunisia: few home-bound ships can spare the extra days to load...