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  2. Transcontinental Motor Convoy - Wikipedia

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    The 1920 Motor Transport Corps convoy left Washington, D.C., on 14 June 1920 and followed the Bankhead Highway to San Diego, California, where it arrived on 2 October. A smaller expedition than the first, the second convoy consisted of 50 vehicles, 32 officers, and 160 enlisted men under Col John F. Franklin. A rate of 45–60 miles per day was ...

  3. 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy - Wikipedia

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    1919 "Trans-Continental Motor Truck" [1] The 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy was a long distance convoy (described as a Motor Truck Trip with a "Truck Train" [1]) carried out by the U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps that drove over 3,000 mi (4,800 km) on the historic Lincoln Highway from Washington, D.C., to Oakland, California and then by ferry over to end in San Francisco.

  4. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 - Wikipedia

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    The convoy reached San Francisco on September 6, 1919. The convoy was memorable enough for a young Army officer, 28-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Dwight David Eisenhower, to include a chapter about the trip, titled "Through Darkest America With Truck and Tank", in his book At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends (Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1967 ...

  5. Military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower - Wikipedia

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    Eisenhower graduated with the United States Military Academy's class of 1915, "the class the stars fell on", ranked 61st in a class of 164.A knee injured playing football and aggravated while horseback riding that could have caused the government to later give Eisenhower a medical discharge and disability pension, almost caused the army to not to commission him after graduation.

  6. Dwight D. Eisenhower - Wikipedia

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    Eisenhower's goal to create improved highways was influenced by his involvement in the Army's 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy. He was assigned as an observer for the mission, which involved sending a convoy of Army vehicles coast to coast.

  7. The US Navy's Eisenhower carrier strike group racked up over ...

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    The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group spent months battling the Houthis in the Red Sea. The captain of the lead ship said the strike group destroyed over 100 Houthi threats during the ...

  8. 1956 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    Eisenhower did not deliver a speech before a joint session of Congress because he had suffered a major heart attack four months prior and was recovering in Key West, Florida. [1] Instead, Eisenhower opted to pre-record remarks from his office at the Naval Air Station in Key West summarizing his State of the Union Address which were broadcast to ...

  9. USS Eisenhower carrier strike group ordered to eastern ... - AOL

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    The aircraft carrier deployed from Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday morning and will join the USS Ford carrier strike group