Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mundy rode in a jeep, between two tanks, along a road lined with Japanese snipers and machine gunners. The column had to stop; the fire was too hot. The officers decided to let the tanks try to break through. Wrote Mundy: "Racing toward us out of the sun were great swarms of planes, and as they roared overhead the crimson orbs on the wings shone down on us. . . . I counted 40 bombers, but fighters weaving in and out and chasing one another in jubilant sweeps around us were too difficult to count...
...that another new trick had been pulled out of the First Army bag. Secretive General Drum had placed fast-moving, heavily armed Airborne Protection Units all over the place. One of these trouble-shooting outfits, called on the radio, sped to Pope Field, backed up the grease-monkeys with jeep-mounted heavy machine guns...
...jeep positively will not fly, but there is a widespread notion in the Army that it can do anything else. Last week in Washington there was a rumor that the midget was going to be equipped with 75-mm. guns. Since the jeep's practical load limit is 800 lb., it could hardly tote a 75, which weighs 3,900. But it is steady as a mule under the recoil of a 37-mm. antitank gun. If, under stress, the jeep should turn over, it is a simple matter for a few soldiers to set it right side...
...fame of the jeep has spread so far that the British, Dutch and Canadians are investigating it. Until the British began using jeeps in Africa, no foreign army had anything quite like it. But, in war or peace, the jeep appears to have a long future ahead of it as a stouter resurrection of the old flivver. Some agricultural experts expect the jeep to be an invaluable asset to the farmer, and many a soldier is firmly determined to get one after the war, for his personal...
...Most common designation: "jeep," an all-inclusive Army nickname for anything insignificant, from a raw draftee to a tiny observation plane...