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...German career came in 1939, when she slipped out of New York on Aug. 22, skipped her Channel stops, and scurried into Bremerhaven three days before war began. There Allied troops found her, in May 1945, filthy from neglect but undamaged by bombing. Used briefly as a U.S. Navy transport, she was returned to the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency because U.S. experts thought her unsuitable for peacetime passenger service. The French, whose passenger fleet had been hard hit during the war, were glad...
...them winging back to Tokyo. This is the Pacific airlift. Every day it flies some 100 tons of men and vitally needed munitions, medicines, etc. from Fairfield-Suisun, Tacoma and San Jose to Tokyo to support the Korean fighting. Every week its 53 commercial liners and 98 Military Air Transport Service planes fly a quarter of the way around the world and back, carrying more ton-miles of cargo than all the U.S. domestic airlines combined...
Just eight years ago, an officer aboard a U.S. transport standing off the Solomon Islands wrote these words in his diary. It was the evening before the newly created 1st Division of the U.S. Marine Corps landed on Guadalcanal. After many a stinging U.S. defeat at the hands of the Japanese, the bloody Guadalcanal campaign was the first U.S. land offensive of the Pacific...
...expecting an announcement of her engagement to Walter Francis John ("Johnny") Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith and heir to the Duke of Buccleuch, Margaret began to be squired about by young-man-about-town William ("Billy") Wallace, son of the late Captain Euan Wallace, M.P. and Minister of Transport in Neville Chamberlain's government...
...Canadian government yielded last week to a mounting public clamor to send Canadian ground force troops to Korea. With the country seemingly convinced that the three Canadian destroyers and a squadron of ten transport planes already assigned for the Korean campaign were not enough, External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson flew to Washington to get a firsthand appraisal of the military situation. The secret report he brought back to Ottawa helped tumble the last opposition. At a four-hour meeting, the cabinet decided that a brigade of 4,000 to 5,000 volunteers should be recruited immediately for the Korean front...