Word: jeeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief among the reasons for the new saving of life was the speed with which the wounded got to hospitals. As in all wars, litter bearers went in to snatch the wounded from under enemy fire (TIME, Aug. 7); usually there was a jolting ride by jeep or ambulance back from the front lines. But from that point, the Korean war was different...
...fast as possible. From the mobile units and other field hospitals, within a week after the war's outbreak, helicopters and grasshopper planes flew the most seriously wounded back to evacuation hospitals. Many a man whose life would have been bounced out of him in a long jeep ride over goat trails through the Korean mountains got to an evacuation port in good shape. Just how good was shown by the astonishing record of the evacuation hospital at Pusan: of 18,000 admitted in the first three months of war, only 40 died...
...Communist train loaded with 250 to 300 American prisoners. A few bearded and emaciated G.I.s, who had been hiding in Pyongyang, told Brigadier General Frank A. Allen, deputy commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, that other G.I. prisoners had been loaded on a northbound train. Allen got into his jeep and set out in pursuit. Inside a railway tunnel ten miles north of Sunchon, a South Korean soldier pointed out the bodies of seven American soldiers who had starved to death. Then, on the bridge above the tunnel, appeared five haggard, hysterical G.I.s. They guided General Allen to a small...
...will provide Siam's poorly equipped 50,000-man army with $10 million worth of modern weapons and transport. It will also dispatch officers and technicians to help train the Siamese in the use of the new arms and equipment. Sample instruction : the care and operation of the jeep...
...gasoline, we lose two things: firepower and the morale of the foot soldier. The foot soldier moving up can well ask himself, 'What the hell?' if a tank passes him going to the rear." Ned Almond has personally stopped rear-bound tanks and sent his own jeep after gasoline for them...