embarkation
em bor kay shuhn
- n the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft
- From parish papers, school magazines, county journals, German intelligence culled many a tidbit telling about war factories, ports of embarkation, regiments at the front.
- This was their final physical, which War Department regulations require within 48 hours of embarkation.
- Most of the troops had deserted by going on pre-embarkation leaves and not coming back.