Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guide on the Hood. Gangling Mark Clark dropped in for a look, transferred from his Piper Cub to a jeep, toured for three hours, a Partisan guide roosting on the hood. He found weeds growing in the boulevards, only a tenth of the peacetime population of 125,000 still pottering through the dismal embers left by Allied bombings, German demolitions. The 60 docks, 35 cranes, 21 warehouses were an addled mess. Across the harbor entrance lay three sunken ships. It was plain that Leghorn would be little help to Allied supply problems for weeks to come...
...fell and ran into a curtain of artillery fire both times-first in the British sector, later in the Canadian. ... Then along came two Frenchmen as unconcerned as if they were on a walking tour. 'Oh, no, mes amis, the Boche are not shelling.' So into the jeep we got and headed again for Caen...
...flew to France in General Brereton's transport," Graebner reported. "Then Generals Brereton and Royce, Air Marshals Coningham and Bottomley and I piled into a jeep and command car and headed up the peninsula along the long straight road to Cherbourg. Later we flew along the American and British lines. Allied fighter bombers and rocket-carrying Typhoons screeched and screamed across the sky just south of our plane...
Beyond, in the open field, the bodies of some of the American gunners were being laid in rows beside the command tent. Farther on there were nine dead Japs in a ditch. One of them still clutched a stick with a bayonet tied to it. Nearby, beside a burning jeep, lay the body of a lieutenant. Corporal Anthony Kouma told us he had begged to be shot because he was so badly wounded. Kouma had said: "You'll be all right, sir," but the officer had died within a few minutes...
...Allied Commander went beyond enemy positions by land and air. The first time his jeep skirted an isolated pocket of German resistance on the western side of the Cherbourg peninsula. Later he visited a Ninth Air Force field and jumped at the chance to go across the line, riding pickaback in a specially converted PSI Mustang, with dashing Major General "Pete" Quesada as pilot...