AMERICAN ARMADA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 116, 20 May 1942, Page 5

AMERICAN ARMADA

ARRIVAL IN NORTHERN IRELAND “AN ARMY IN ITSELF” (Recd. 11.30 p.m.) London, May 19. Large enough to constitute an army in itself and accompanied by battle equipment worth millions of pounds, the largest contingent of United States troops to cross the Atlantic landed in Northern Ireland. A correspondent with the convoy said he was allowed to say this was one of the most powerful armada. l ' ever to embark on a military venture overseas. Troops and equipment fanned out until the Irish countryside was heavy with the noise of rumbling troop convoys, fast-moving light tanks, mobile anti-tank guns and artillery. The contingent was mainly infantry but the composition was so miscellaneous as to indicate fulfilment of the recent announcement by General Marshall that various types of American troops would be stationed in the British Isles. Accompanying the contingent, are nurses of the Harvard Medical Unit.