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...matter of the kid . . . who died on a jeep in the Ruhr...
...Hitler's invasion of the Sudetenland, the Libyan campaign; had been shot at in Syria, Sicily and Italy. They knew about his tilts with censors, too: in the invasion of southern France, he had been suspended briefly, along with four other newsmen, for running off in a jeep to make a "juncture" with the northern armies at Nantes, ten days before the official juncture. For that, his friends named him "Task Force Kennedy...
When I and other correspondents reached the scene, a howling mob was struggling for place beside the heap of cadavers. Partisan guards vainly fired rifle and pistol shots into the air to keep the crowd back. We drove our jeep to the edge of the scene, I clambered atop the hood...
...Elbe. One morning a patrol from the 69th Division's 273rd Regiment, sent out to direct surrendering German soldiers and liberated Allied prisoners to the rear, rolled beyond its officially prescribed radius of action and found itself in Torgau. This patrol consisted of four Yanks in a jeep-Second Lieutenant William D. Robertson, a small, wiry officer from Los Angeles, and three enlisted...
...fame he had attained but unready for its demands. The people of Albuquerque gave him a $500 wrist watch. Paulette Goddard, Olivia de Havilland and Jinx Falkenburg kissed him, all in one afternoon. Two universities gave him honorary degrees. Admirers sent him apples, pecans, a cowboy belt, a jeep. He won a Pulitzer Prize, and the first Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for war correspondence. His collected G.I. columns, Here Is Your War, sold over a million copies; a second collection, Brave Men, sold 875,000. Hollywood made a movie (soon to be released) with Burgess Meredith playing Ernie Pyle. Ernie...