Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This event was reported by the first U.S. newsman to enter Paris, TIME'S Chief War Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker. With LIFE'S Photographer Robert Capa, and Private Hubert Stickland of Norfolk, Va. as driver, Werten-baker's jeep drove directly behind General Leclerc's armored car, as French forces entered the city through the Porte d'Orleans at 9:40 a.m., Friday...
...Northwestern France, Sergeant Robert Beeton of Clinton, N.C. was tooling along a road in a jeep with two buddies. Among them they had a Tommy gun, two pistols...
...turned a bend," Beeton said later, "and there, coming down the road, was what looked like an entire company of well-armed krauts. I stopped the jeep and trained the Tommy gun on them...
...every halted jeep were deluged with hugs & kisses. From then on the Bretons of Rennes enacted the Marseillaise...
...Tantrums. Among war films only the Army's Why We Fight series and Screen Magazine are generally liked. But Destination, Tokyo has earned a certain respect, and A Guy Named Joe is well thought of in India. In Iceland, Hollywood's self-congratulatory Four Jills in a Jeep (TIME, April 3) ended abruptly when a crowd of G.l.s walked out on it. In Alaska, where Olivia De Havilland is normally very popular with G.l.s, they fiercely hooted her flag-waving tantrums at the end of Government Girl. Everywhere, G.l.s scan war films for technical errors to razz...