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...tough ride," Gibney cabled. "The general's expert jeep driver treated the jeep as if it were a plane while we rocketed along the narrow, crumbling, dusty roads. Taking that jeep ride was the best way of finding out how tireless and driving a man Walker is. There were no wasted seconds-even for lunch. The general did suggest that I take time out to eat with the drivers while he was conferring at a regimental command post, but I was too interested in the conference to accept his offer...
...After returning from the jeep ride, bruised, caked with dust, and armed with a good insight into the way General Walker works, I talked with some headquarters sources and turned in. I slept on the floor of a schoolhouse, which had been turned into a correspondents' billet, and I was lucky enough to get one blanket for bedding...
...reopen the southern escape lines. Overhead, U.S. Mustangs and F80 jet fighters wheeled and roared down to attack Communist tanks with rockets. Dense clouds of oil smoke boiled up from detonated U.S. fuel supplies; as ammunition stores exploded, great orange flashes broke through the smoke clouds. Occasionally a U.S. jeep veered crazily off a street and crashed into the side of a building, its driver dead at the wheel...
...desperate delaying action. Only one of the newsmen, the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, got back to write about it. The others, Ray Richards of Hearst's International News Service and Corporal Ernie Peeler of Stars and Stripes, were killed as they ran for a jeep when the battalion was cut off. Richards was shot through the head, Peeler through the chest. They were the first newsmen to die in the Korean...
Gibney cabled: "Lieut. Jim Little, driving in the lead jeep, suddenly found himself staring down the barrel of a 50-caliber, machine gun only 45 feet away. His panic-stricken Korean interpreter jumped out and the G.I. driver threw up his hands to surrender. Both were cut down by a merciless blast from the machine gun. A Red soldier then jumped into the road and drew a bead on Little with his rifle. Luckily, the weapon jammed. Little had time to duck into the shelter of a house by the roadside. Said he, later, 'I could see every inch...