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Seventeen days out of their embarkation port, in the early subarctic dawn, crowded American troop transports raised the headlands of the bleak volcanic island. Mothered by destroyers, fleets of tank lighters nursed their way through rock-infested bays in fog so thick that a ship was blotted out 100 yards away...
...other side they filed up the gangways of waiting troop transports. As the troops went aboard, a checker barked out each soldier's surname; he answered by shouting his own first name...
France. Thirty German soldiers were killed, 100 seriously injured when francs-tireurs derailed a Berlin-Paris troop train. Elsewhere in France, ten military trains were wrecked. In Caen all rail connections with the port were cut by well-placed bombs. In Lyon a pitched battle with francs-tireurs cost the Germans 25 casualties. At Annamasse two bombs exploded in a Nazi office building...
Thousands of his craft are already in service, from two-seater trainers to troop carriers. Standard CG-4A glider, worked out by the Army and Waco Aircraft, is a burly, 3,600-lb. flying boxcar that carries 15 men, or an armed jeep, or a 105-mm. howitzer to battle. Three can be towed by a single C-47 (military DC-3) transport...
...Rails and Passengers. U.S. population centers are bunched in the Northeast. The Southeast and Southwest have the best climates for training camps. Therefore, reported OWI, troop movements have necessarily been enormous, are now running at the rate of 1,750,000 men a month (exclusive of furloughs). These excursions consume 50% of all Pullman space (and could use 100%). In the last war each U.S. soldier made an average of three moves by rail; in this one a typical soldier makes eight...