Word: jeep
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Northwestern France, Sergeant Robert Beeton of Clinton, N.C. was tooling along a road in a jeep with two buddies. Among them they had a Tommy gun, two pistols...
...turned a bend," Beeton said later, "and there, coming down the road, was what looked like an entire company of well-armed krauts. I stopped the jeep and trained the Tommy gun on them...
...every halted jeep were deluged with hugs & kisses. From then on the Bretons of Rennes enacted the Marseillaise...
Guide on the Hood. Gangling Mark Clark dropped in for a look, transferred from his Piper Cub to a jeep, toured for three hours, a Partisan guide roosting on the hood. He found weeds growing in the boulevards, only a tenth of the peacetime population of 125,000 still pottering through the dismal embers left by Allied bombings, German demolitions. The 60 docks, 35 cranes, 21 warehouses were an addled mess. Across the harbor entrance lay three sunken ships. It was plain that Leghorn would be little help to Allied supply problems for weeks to come...
...Tantrums. Among war films only the Army's Why We Fight series and Screen Magazine are generally liked. But Destination, Tokyo has earned a certain respect, and A Guy Named Joe is well thought of in India. In Iceland, Hollywood's self-congratulatory Four Jills in a Jeep (TIME, April 3) ended abruptly when a crowd of G.l.s walked out on it. In Alaska, where Olivia De Havilland is normally very popular with G.l.s, they fiercely hooted her flag-waving tantrums at the end of Government Girl. Everywhere, G.l.s scan war films for technical errors to razz...