Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emissary and the general's chief of staff, a colonel, carried the terms to the headquarters of Major General Fritz Krause, commander of the sector. General Krause accepted the terms, got in the colonel's jeep. On the way back to U.S. headquarters, the colonel saw Germans setting fire to their trucks. He told General Krause to order them to stop. The general did. One of the Germans snapped: "Why should we give the damn Americans all this equipment?" General Krause pointed at the U.S. colonel in the back seat. The German grew confused, ordered...
...game with the Washington Senators, the Certain sprang off the players' bench, rushed out to shake his hand as he crossed the plate. During another game, when fly-chasing Di Maggio backed into a deep gully on the edge of the field, Captain McClure jumped into his private jeep, scooted across the field to see if he was hurt. The Captain is constantly tacking notices on the clubhouse bulletin board. The morning of a game with the Senators, one read: Orders of the Day From: The Commanding Officer To: The Baseball Detail Subject: Baseball game...
Thousands of his craft are already in service, from two-seater trainers to troop carriers. Standard CG-4A glider, worked out by the Army and Waco Aircraft, is a burly, 3,600-lb. flying boxcar that carries 15 men, or an armed jeep, or a 105-mm. howitzer to battle. Three can be towed by a single C-47 (military DC-3) transport...
...shell exploded close by. A four-inch fragment tore across his left shoulder and smashed the tip of his collar bone. A splinter about an inch and a half long pierced his helmet and came to rest against the base of his skull. The General walked to a jeep, rode three hours to a hospital, was operated on, said: "I'll be back there soon. I'm looking for my clothes now. The shoulder doesn't hurt any. After another good night's sleep I'll be ready for war again." But his doctors thought...
...Army Photographer Sergeant Worden F. Lovell of Maiden, Mass., jockeying his jeep in the wake of a British Eighth Army advance unit in Tunisia, briskly demanded directions. Asked by one of the limeys why he wanted to know, Camera man Lovell made it pretty clear that he had no time for conversation, gave and got a few personal remarks anyway. Said Lovell to a bystander, when his questioner had walked away: "That fellow must be a sergeant, the way he talked to me." Bystander: "That's Montgomery...