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TIME, June 14, carried an exciting account of the exploits performed by Brigadier General Carl R. Gray's special railway corps in North Africa. Perhaps your readers will be interested in the background of a typical unit in this special corps...
...request of the War Department in 1929, the Southern Railway System organized a railway operating battalion. . . . While we were at peace . . . the battalion existed largely as a skeleton organization, with . . . officers . . . keeping up with military and transportation developments . . . to be prepared if they should be called. . . . That call came. . . . The battalion was then designated the -th Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army, and was the first military railway organization to be activated...
...successive armies. To a lesser but great extent, they can also thank U.S. and British aid. Published figures by no means convey the full effect of the planes, tanks, other weapons and materials delivered to the Red Army. Many, and in some sectors most, of the bombers harrying airdromes, railway junctions and supply centers are U.S. bombers, with Russian crews...
...port of Messina, the chief point of entry for supplies from the mainland, they dumped the biggest Sicilian bomb loads. (But none down the volcanic throat of nearby Mt. Etna- On both island and mainland the targets were carefully chosen: airdromes with their repair shops and grounded aircraft, railway junctions, gun emplacements, munitions and gasoline dumps. Said a veteran of Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, describing an attack on three airdromes: "It was the best job of Allied bombing I have ever seen...
...attack came. An area twice as large as that already hit was bombed out. The center of the city was hit this time, and also the northern part of town, on the other side of the railway station, where industries were located...