Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of the kid . . . who died on a jeep in the Ruhr...
...automobile makers, Willys-Overland is least worried about reconverting. Willys' chairman, shrewd Ward Murphey Canaday, will switch production to a slightly modified version of the wartime jeep. Canaday is enthusiastic about the market for jeeps on the 6 million U.S. farms. The export markets look good, too. Canaday has signed one contract with a South American importer for 5,000 postwar jeeps. He has letters from 6,000 U.S. servicemen who have fervently announced they want to become jeep distributors when they get home...
...Hitler's invasion of the Sudetenland, the Libyan campaign; had been shot at in Syria, Sicily and Italy. They knew about his tilts with censors, too: in the invasion of southern France, he had been suspended briefly, along with four other newsmen, for running off in a jeep to make a "juncture" with the northern armies at Nantes, ten days before the official juncture. For that, his friends named him "Task Force Kennedy...
When I and other correspondents reached the scene, a howling mob was struggling for place beside the heap of cadavers. Partisan guards vainly fired rifle and pistol shots into the air to keep the crowd back. We drove our jeep to the edge of the scene, I clambered atop the hood...
...Elbe. One morning a patrol from the 69th Division's 273rd Regiment, sent out to direct surrendering German soldiers and liberated Allied prisoners to the rear, rolled beyond its officially prescribed radius of action and found itself in Torgau. This patrol consisted of four Yanks in a jeep-Second Lieutenant William D. Robertson, a small, wiry officer from Los Angeles, and three enlisted...