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ETHIOPIA, 1935. General Legion: Blockade Italy, shutting off oil. Close the Suez Canal to Italian troop ships. If necessary, bombard Genoa, Naples, Leghorn, Palermo. Captain Truman: Send American troops to Ethiopia. No blockade. No closing of the canal...
Union Station and drove through troop-lined streets, until his speech before Congress on Monday, he was on the move almost constantly. On his first night in Washington, he and Madame Auriol were feted by the Trumans with a dinner at the Carlton Hotel (they drank California burgundy). The next day he dropped by the White House for a chat and addressed the National Press Club. Later in the week he received a rousing ovation when he spoke to the Western Hemisphere foreign ministers (see HEMISPHERE). Between times he made a quick trip to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, visited...
...even worse rail accident occurred in 1917 at St. Michel, near the Franco-Italian border, when a French troop train was wrecked, killing at least 535, injuring 243. Wartime censorship likewise hushed up the St. Michel disaster; the full story was told 16 years later...
...starter, the Eighteenth will have about 60 load-lugging C-828, plus the obsolescent C-468 and C-478 in the reserve troop carrier groups that the Air Force has recently mobilized. Eventually, when the two modern troop carrier wings (flying some C-1198) now in Korea return to the U.S., they will be placed in the Eighteenth...
...airborne forces have adopted faster troop planes, the opening shock has become more & more of a problem. At the Army's Airborne Center at Fort Bragg, N.C. this week, the Army Field Forces are testing a new parachute which may all but eliminate it. The new T-10 chute has a canopy two feet larger (30 feet) than the chute now in use (which slows the rate of descent) and, instead of being circular, is shaped like a soup bowl with an extended skirt around its edge (which cuts down on the pendulum-like motion of the parachute...