Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duck. Then there is the pinging of machine-gun fare and we duck again. Now an amphtank chuffs up on the beach, swings and throws a shot to the left. Next in are the amphtracks, and then the landing boats, loaded with troops. Presently the beach has a jeep, a bulldozer, a U.S. flag. These things make the landing official. I gulp scalding tea from an Army canteen cup and wade ashore...
...execution. As Infantry Chief, Hodges was concerned with training and new weapons. His knowledge of guns began to pay dividends. Hodges' insistence that an infantryman should have a weapon to stop a tank was an early influence in fostering the mortar-type bazooka. Other Hodges-fostered items: the jeep, the new-type helmet, the rapid-firing carbine...
Lieut. Colonel Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 42, who resigned his Senate seat last February to do some real fighting overseas, captured a four-man Nazi patrol singlehanded. The grandson of famed post-War I Isolationist Senator Henry Cabot Lodge let his jeep-driver tell the tale: "Colonel Lodge . . . had spotted the Germans a long way off. When we got close to them, Colonel Lodge pulled out a pistol, leaped out of the jeep, and the prisoners threw their hands...
...Landis, blonde cinemarmful, who started off a U.S.O. tour last year by marrying Army Air Forces Major Thomas Wallace, returned from another U.S.O. tour to announce that the marriage was a bust. She blamed Hollywood's portrayal of her first tour and marriage in Four Jills in A Jeep. Said she: "I liked him as he was. Our trouble started when he tried to be like the man in the picture...
...National Association of Military Surgeons was shown through the laboratory of the Medical School's Department of Physical Chemistry several months ago, he came out saying to friends, "As you progress from room to room, you almost expect that in the next one they will be making a jeep out of blood...