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U.S. Army convoy from Detroit to an "Atlantic Coast port" [13] 6-2-1918 U.S. Army School for Truck Drivers "just opened" [14] [15] c. 1918: Chicago-to-New York City convoy sets Army distance record [16] 11-11-1918 Germans sign Armistice (cease fire) agreement, ending WWI: 12-1-1918 During World War I 90,727 trucks produced for the Army and Navy ...
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.
early sailings every 5th merged OA/OB convoy became an OG convoy at sea - later OG convoys sailed from Liverpool ON: Liverpool to Halifax Harbour: 26 July 1941 27 May 1945 307 replaced OB convoys for North American destinations - alternate convoys included slower ships until the ONS convoys started ONS: Liverpool to Halifax Harbour: 15 March 1943
The Red Ball Express was a famed truck convoy system that supplied Allied forces moving quickly through Europe after breaking out from the D-Day beaches in Normandy in 1944. [1] To expedite cargo shipment to the front, trucks emblazoned with red balls followed a similarly marked route that was closed to civilian traffic.
The first large convoy of the war was the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) convoy. On 18 October 1914, the Japanese battlecruiser Ibuki left the port of Wellington, New Zealand, with 10 troopships. They joined 28 Australian ships and the Australian light cruisers HMAS Sydney and Melbourne at Albany, Western Australia.
British military ferry convoy to reinforce Operation Sickle: TM: Curaçao to Gibraltar: Jan 1943: Single special tanker convoy for the Allied 1st Army after Operation Torch: TM: Taranto to the south coast of France: Aug 1944: Single military convoy supporting Operation Dragoon: TMC: Thames via St. Helen's Roads, Isle of Wight to France: Oct ...
The first convoy, designated UGF 1, was the invasion convoy sailing on 24 October 1942 and arriving on 8 November 1942. The F designated a convoy of faster ships. Thereafter, fast and slow eastbound and westbound convoys on this southern route were given four separate numbering sequences beginning with 2.
In 1919, he served on the Transcontinental Motor Convoy, an army vehicle exercise that traveled from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco at a pace of 5 mph. [19] The convoy was designed both as a training event and as a way to publicize the need for better roads, and spurred many states to increase funding for road-building. [20]