Word: jeeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...
...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...