Of course it had not been possible to foresee that the new officers coming in with the transport fleet would be carrying new orders.
Northwest eventually owned one of the largest transport fleets on the Great Lakes.
Its transport fleet helped fly in vital supplies to the army when the Russian Winter weather made supply difficult on the ground.
On occasion, only the transport fleet could fly in supplies to keep units operational.
Winthrop, along with other company officials, then began the process of arranging a transport fleet and supplies for the migration.
The transport fleet consisted of 210 large and 140 smaller ships.
Entire transport fleets brought in the material necessary for building the military base.
The university has a transport fleet of 40 buses for students and 04 coasters for teaching staff.
Although an improvement on what went before, the total of 362 is only a fraction of the 1,166 C-47s in the American transport fleet.
This was due to a deal struck with the American armed forces, which had no transport fleet when they entered the war.