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Article: NDTA--D-Day--World War II.(From PagesPast)
- Article from:
- Defense Transportation Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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As we mark the 60th Anniversary of D-Day and the final days of WW II in the European Theater, this Pages Past will detail stories of transporters as written by them in the first year's issues of our Transportation Journal.
With all the attention this June being focused on the 60th Anniversary of D-Day, many of you might be wondering what part NDTA played in events 60 years ago. As most of you know, back then the name of the Association was ATA (the Army Transportation Association). In 1944 the creation of the Department of Defense and the separate United States Air Force were three years off in the future. Likewise, the Association itself was not founded until 11 ...