Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...portable recorder had no battery of its own, had to be plugged into the battery of a truck or a jeep. These vehicles are usually not available for such purposes during a battle...
From grinning Navy men the U.S. Army finally found what had happened to a missing jeep. It had been parked on a dock in a West Coast port hard by a submarine. Next day both submarine and jeep had gone. To newspaper ads asking for information leading to recovery of the little car, the Army got no reply...
Lanky Lieut. General Mark Clark of the British-American Fifth Army rode his familiar jeep up to the front again. The Italian autumn rains had eased a bit. The spongy volcanic soil of the Volturno meadows firmed rapidly; it was possible now to drive off the roads. From a forward post the General peered across a calm, river-and ditch-ribbed valley to the German positions...
...There's no place in the world as quiet as a battlefield before a battle," he mused aloud. Later, riding back, he met some field officers. "Hit 'em hard, boys," he said, "damn hard!" His jeep passed a signpost giving the kilometers to Rome: 192 (120 mi.). "That's not so far," he commented. "I remember seeing the first sign to Naples after landing at Salerno. It read 105 kilometers. We made it all right. Just as the boys of the Fifth Army will make Rome...
...General Eaker emerged, possessor of one of Britain's highest military honors, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division). If Ira Eaker were a British subject he would have been invested as a knight, becoming Sir Ira; since he is as American as a jeep the knighthood was purely honorary...