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Article: National Defense Transportation Day.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Defense Transportation Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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Excerpt from the 1957 May-June issue of DTJ, pages 20 and 21.
"FOR THE FIRST TIME, on May 17, the Transportation Industry of the Country had an opportunity to observe a day of its own to emphasize transportation preparedness for national defense. NDTA Chapters across the Nation, in Europe and Japan marked the occasion with a variety of activities ranging from a boat trip down the Rhine River to banquets, dinners, parades, open house celebrations and a cruise aboard an aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean.
The central theme for this year's celebration was "The Part We Play in Our Common Defense," and emphasis on the theme in local papers, exhibits, ...