Word: jeeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first in Korea) and the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade, and a Silver Star to his son, Captain Sam Walker, a 24th Division combat officer. A three-ton truck driven by a South Korean pulled out of line in a southbound column, directly in the path of Walker's jeep. The general's driver could not avoid a collision. Walker was thrown to the road. He was dead when an ambulance got him to a field hospital two miles away.* Viewing his father's shrouded body, Captain Sam Walker wept. General MacArthur revealed that he had recently recommended...
...explanation of the procedure,"the bad problem is parts. We don't do bad. If we come across anything on the road, damaged, we strip it for parts. When we got time, we send a party out to scour the road for vehicles, gook or otherwise." A jeep marked H.Q. 35 drove up. "You see old 35 there," said Sergeant Lloyd. "That is our reserve. Whenever a jeep comes up here and needs a part bad, we take it off old 35." How did he replace the parts on old 35? "Ah, that is a professional secret...
...flowed along smoothly. But at week's end the honeymoon ended. Eighth Army Headquarters in Korea ordered NBC's Kenneth Kantor and U.P.'s Peter Webb confined to quarters for a "gross security violation" in disclosing prematurely the death of Lieut. General Walton Walker in a jeep accident (see WAR IN ASIA). Full field censorship was ordered for all press copy, and telephones used by newsmen covering Eighth Army Headquarters were removed...
...colonel glanced down the peaceful no man's land that separated him from the friendly Koreans and saw them marching in the direction of the railroad bridge. He jumped in a jeep, swung himself behind a 30-caliber machine gun and drove up to stop them. Meanwhile, the reconnaissance platoon went off for one last swing through the town to make sure all the U.N. troops were out. When the colonel finally was forced to dismount and turn them back at carbine point, the Koreans seemed hurt and puzzled...
...correspondent who accompanied Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker's army by jeep said the retreat ended somewhere south of the 38th parallel, with the army moving into new positions there