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Tito himself, driving around the maneuvers area in a U.S. jeep, was pleased with his troops' performance and by Western praise of it. But he nostalgically recalled his tough, resourceful partisan bands of World War II. "There is still a role for partisans in modern war," Tito said. "There are two Yugoslav armies, and one of them is partisan...
...Allied landings in Normandy and southern France, Navarre got command of an armored regiment of Moroccan Spahis, as part of General de Lattre's Army of the Rhine and Danube. One day while Navarre, the assiduous information gatherer, was reconnoitering alone along a forest road in a jeep, he found himself looking down the burp-gun barrels of the German rearguard-about 40 men. Navarre, who speaks excellent German, barked out: "Drop your guns. You are surrounded. You are my prisoners. March down that road and surrender to my Moroccans." The bluff worked and the Germans did as they...
...Jeep (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). A new comedy series...
...twice to the gook to halt, and when the gook didn't stop, he tried to get the dog to stop him, [but] the dog wouldn't attack. Then the guard fired two shots. These shots woke me, and I went to the area in a Government jeep ... I tried to get the dog to attack the gook, and the dog wouldn't attack. The guard and I, together, put the gook in the jeep. After we got the gook in the jeep, the gook, who was in the back, went for my pistol. I knocked hell...
...taken to a secluded revetment, where the guard killed him with a single shot. "I didn't want anything to do with it," Toth claimed, "so I got the hell out of there. When I was back at the guardhouse. I heard a shot, got into the jeep and went back to the bomb dump. When I got there, I saw the gook lying on the ground...