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...Near Yongdong, Korea, Gerassimos ("Mike") Gigantes, 27, a Greek-born correspondent for Hearst's International News Service, the London Observer and Radio Athens, was ambushed in a jeep by North Korean machine gunners. Wounded in the hand and thigh, Gigantes (who used the byline "Philip Deane") was captured...
...last war, our greatest lifesaver is bottled plasma and the rapidity with which it is injected. The jeep which can carry up to four litter cases, sometimes with two or three corpsmen hanging on with one hand and holding a plasma bottle high with the other, is one of the most dramatic of war scenes...
...street fighting, Reds shot down some G.I.s who had tried to surrender; other U.S. troops were driven to acts of desperation and of heroism. Private Darcy Brady, from Gassaway, W. Va., piled eleven wounded men into a jeep and took off at top speed for the U.S. lines. Red machine-gunners opened fire, seconds too late. Brady's speeding jeep bounced crazily over the heavily mined no man's land to safety...
With sirens wailing, two shiny jeeps with .30-caliber machine guns mounted on their hoods rattled last week along a dusty South Korean road, passing long truck convoys plodding north. Weary G.I. truck drivers were slow at first to give the jeeps the right of way, but after a startled doubletake they pulled over in a hurry. On the fenders of the lead jeep were two small shiny metal flags, one carrying the three stars of a lieutenant general, the other bearing the letters "CG-8." In the lead jeep, his big hand grasping an arm rest, was grim-faced...
Fielder joined the ground forces in Korea, went up to Taejon. Last week, as the burning city fell to the Communists, a convoy of U.S. vehicles fought its way out, under orders to stop for no one. According to the driver of one jeep, Wilson Fielder was riding in the back seat with a G.L, when a burst of machine-gun fire hit them both and knocked them out of the jeep. Obeying orders, the driver said, he kept going...