Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulldog. From his command post he was riding to the front north of Seoul, to present unit citations to the 24th Division (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...
...Alone." Unhappy, scared and wishing he had never left Bayonne, Popko was loaded onto a truck with 60 other G.I.s, and started along dusty "Cavalry Boulevard" toward the Naktong river front. Says Popko: "After the first couple of days we got to be pretty good. We learned the tricks. We knew what to watch for and when to fire and how to take care of yourself. If you can Jive through the first couple of days, you got a chance...
...August 12. Armed Recon. Hit Kimpo airfield, burned 4 yak fighters, damaged one more. Burned truck South of Taejon. Heavy flak...
...description of how fast blood can flow across the Pacific. Commander Sproul's consignment, like all the blood used by the services, was collected by the Red Cross from donors all over the nation and shipped to Travis Air Force Base at Fairfield by air, rail and refrigerated truck. Tested and packed in 20 ice-filled plywood boxes, it was piled less than 14 hours later into the cabin of a MATS transport...
Husky young T. C. Gaines, an Arizona farmer, had promised to lend his tractor to a neighbor. One day last May, as good as his word, he delivered the tractor and drove his truck over to the neighbor's farm to explain its workings. As he filled the tractor's tank with gas, a hired hand lit a cigarette. A split second later, panic-stricken Gaines was streaking across the field, his gasoline-soaked clothes a flaming torch. His friends managed to halt his flight, put out the flames and got him to the truck. No one else...