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Although trained in old style manner, Lt. Hackett rode into the Tunisian campaign with the mechanized cavalry swirling across sandy stretches of battle-ground in a jeep. Operating as a combat intelligence officer in North Africa, he took part in most of the major battles including Gafas, Seined Maknassey, Jbol Berda, and finally El Guettar, where on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines, he was hurled 15 feet by an exploding German 88 men shell, which tore away parts of both his legs...
...balconies offered all sorts of unintelligible suggestions in Greek or sign language. One sent a note by a scampering little boy (snipers don't deliberately shoot at children). The note said in English: 'Friends, I am Warner Brothers manager here. Come to my house.' " A British jeep finally rescued the newsmen...
...Fighting. At the same rapid pace other fields began to appear on the rough, forbidding terrain of Saipan. Often the engineers, working within earshot of the Japs, had to take time out to fight. One day Lieut. Henry McCoy killed a sniper by running him down in a jeep...
...Bradley, busily engaged on the German front, was served notice by city officials of his home town, Moberly, Mo., that his 1945 auto license plates were on their way. They had assigned him license No. 1, hoping that the plates would roll into Berlin on the General's jeep before the license expired...
...Jeffers, president of Father's railroad. But in all the 250-odd gifts and the bushel baskets of letters, and telegrams, nothing was so satisfactory-not even the fuzzy kangaroo-as the presents from his parents, which Nubbins had particularly asked for: the wooden freight train, the toy jeep, the candy-filled locomotive. "It was a Christmas," said his father, "that little boys dream...