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Motive Power. Steam engines are new and rare on the M.M. & M. The line was established solely with jeeps. Coupled for power (with a driver in each jeep), they run a daily shuttle over the 30-odd-mile road, towing six-car trains loaded with combat troops, casualties, evacuees, mules, equipment, food, high ranking officers...
...well-known battle areas a few days ago. ... As we sat and smoked, a great strapping Fuzzy happened along on a fishing expedition. He was handsome with his necklaces and arm bands and his blue lap-lap, and appeared interested in us, so we called him over to our jeep...
...stroke had been brilliantly successful, but he was going to have to let some of the cripples get away. In mid-battle, he got a desperate call for help from Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet. Had Halsey stayed too long at his appointment in the north? Kinkaid's jeep carriers had already caught it hot & heavy from the Japs' central force, which whipped through San Bernardino Strait before dawn-before the jeeps' aircraft could get off. The CVEs were at no pains to hide their plight: they shrilled for help in uncoded voice radio...
...used to start walking on a pavement, step over and round sleeping men, and then use the road, dodge to avoid a speeding jeep, hop behind a lorry to get away from fast baseball players, be compelled to walk on the road again, only to jump clear of a rash driver, and so on down the road between a double line of huge lorries, where men played cards sitting on petrol tins, shaved with a mere drop of water, using the small windscreen mirror to see how they were progressing, and washed clothes in about one pint of water...
...appeared the first report from the German front by its sports and cinema writer turned war correspondent, tall, young (25), quiet-voiced David Lardner. His story was a factual, homey piece about life in liberated Luxembourg. Two days after publication came news that Lardner, leaving conquered Aachen in a jeep, had run into a minefield. He was the 20th U.S. correspondent killed in World...