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...Agreement. At home, there was equal confusion. The Army still listed transport sailings, the Navy banned such information; both services were talking about the same ships. After asking newspapers not to use pictures of FSI Mustangs being loaded on the carrier Boxer, the Navy then released the pictures. An Air Force officer barred interviews with passengers arriving in the U.S. from overseas, then was overruled...
...biggest U.S. scarcity was in fast ocean passenger tonnage convertible to troop transport service. No U.S. passenger ships were built during World War II, and the pip-squeak postwar construction has not begun to replace the losses from sinkings and scrappings. Even with the completion in 1952 of six liners now in the yards, the U.S. will have only 58 passenger vessels in operation, with berths for 20,000 passengers, less than half the space available before Pearl Harbor. Last week U.S. shipbuilders were hoping that Congress would pass the industry-sponsored long range shipping bill providing special tax benefits...
...present we are flying copies of TIME to our armed forces in Korea via transport planes of the Far Eastern Air Force. The edition they are getting is the Pacific, one of our four International editions, which is identical with TIME'S U.S. edition except that its advertising is directed to the Pacific market...
Battling a tough, well-supplied enemy in Korea, Douglas MacArthur's undernourished Far East Command needed more planes, more transport and, most of all, more ground troops. Some of what was needed was on the way last week. Items: ¶On July 9, the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Washington, was told to get ready for the Far East. On the same day antiaircraft units from both Fourth Army Headquarters at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and Sixth Army Headquarters in San Francisco, were also alerted for Far Eastern duty...
...previous week MacArthur's ground commander, Lieut. General Walton Harris Walker, had been preparing for such an order, working out in advance the logistics of infantry transport. Walker's Eighth Army included four divisions ready for combat-the 7th, 24th and 25th Infantry Divisions and the 1st Cavalry Division. Of these 50-55,000 combat troops, some would have to be kept in Japan, unless MacArthur were willing to rely on service and headquarters troops to maintain order...