Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Motive Power. Steam engines are new and rare on the M.M. & M. The line was established solely with jeeps. Coupled for power (with a driver in each jeep), they run a daily shuttle over the 30-odd-mile road, towing six-car trains loaded with combat troops, casualties, evacuees, mules, equipment, food, high ranking officers...
...rail line had been cut and was under enemy fire at some points; tracks were ripped up and bridges torn down. But there were boxcars, flatcars, and all other essentials except engines, which the Japs were using for machine-gun nests. Simply by switching wheels, G.I. railroadmen created the jeep locomotive and started to roll...
...well-known battle areas a few days ago. ... As we sat and smoked, a great strapping Fuzzy happened along on a fishing expedition. He was handsome with his necklaces and arm bands and his blue lap-lap, and appeared interested in us, so we called him over to our jeep...
...stroke had been brilliantly successful, but he was going to have to let some of the cripples get away. In mid-battle, he got a desperate call for help from Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet. Had Halsey stayed too long at his appointment in the north? Kinkaid's jeep carriers had already caught it hot & heavy from the Japs' central force, which whipped through San Bernardino Strait before dawn-before the jeeps' aircraft could get off. The CVEs were at no pains to hide their plight: they shrilled for help in uncoded voice radio...
...appeared the first report from the German front by its sports and cinema writer turned war correspondent, tall, young (25), quiet-voiced David Lardner. His story was a factual, homey piece about life in liberated Luxembourg. Two days after publication came news that Lardner, leaving conquered Aachen in a jeep, had run into a minefield. He was the 20th U.S. correspondent killed in World...