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  2. Transcontinental Motor Convoy - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. History of military logistics - Wikipedia

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    The US Army gave a low priority to such vehicles until the need became acute. [133] The increased technological and administrative complexity was reflected in the proliferation of staff and paperwork. In the United States, the Army Service Forces inventoried 200,000 paper forms and eliminated 125,000 of them.

  4. List of military inventions - Wikipedia

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    United States (Alfred J. Gross, Motorola SCR-300) Portable two-way radio communications system for military Portable radio communications – business, public safety, marine, amateur radio, CB radio: Night vision: 1939 - 1940s Nazi Germany. United States. Visibility for military personnel in low light situations Low light photography ...

  5. History of the United States Army - Wikipedia

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    The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy, (1977) Utley, Robert M. Frontier Regulars; the United States Army and the Indian, 1866–1891 (1973) Richard W. Stewart, ed. (2004). American Military History Vol. 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775–1917.

  6. History of military technology - Wikipedia

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    Innovation and the arms race: How the United States and the Soviet Union develop new military technologies (Cornell University Press, 2020). online; Gabriel, Richard A. Between flesh and steel: A history of military medicine from the middle ages to the war in Afghanistan (Potomac Books, 2013) online. Horowitz, Michael C., and Shira Pindyck.

  7. Aviation in the interwar period - Wikipedia

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    The areas of the world covered by commercial air routes in 1925. Sometimes dubbed the Golden Age of Aviation, [1] the period in the history of aviation between the end of World War I (1918) and the beginning of World War II (1939) was characterised by a progressive change from the slow wood-and-fabric biplanes of World War I to fast, streamlined metal monoplanes, creating a revolution in both ...

  8. Military history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The military history of the United States spans over two centuries, the entire history of the United States. During those centuries, the United States evolved from a newly formed nation which fought for its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain (1775–1783) to world superpower status in the aftermath of World War II to the present. [ 1 ]

  9. History of transport - Wikipedia

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    On May 5, 1961, the US launched its first suborbital Mercury astronaut, Alan Shepard, in the Freedom 7 capsule. Kerimov later went on to launch the first space docks ( Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188 ) in 1967 and the first space stations ( Salyut and Mir series) from 1971 to 1991.