Word: ruggedness
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Russians used them to whip artillery to the Stalingrad front to crush Nazi tank attacks. British used them to scout, fight and pursue Rommel 2,000 miles. U.S. troops had one waiting for President Roosevelt at Casablanca. Everywhere the tough, square, squat jeeps are bouncing the backsides of the United...
But there were reasons, just as potent, why Russia and Japan should maintain a watchful neutrality. Each has half a million to a million troops posted on the long Siberian-Manchukuoan frontier. The Soviet Far Eastern Army is well equipped, led by rugged General Joseph Rodionovich ("Hercules") Apanasenko. A Red...
The Navy chaplains were getting toughening-up training, too. At Virginia's College of William & Mary (Williamsburg) they hiked, worked in the gymnasium between classes. At the course's climax they dived through burning oil in the swimming pool, pushed ahead under water, came up with arms thrashing...
A stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron, the M-3 is nevertheless rugged, light and easy to massproduce. It coughs out a clipful of .45-caliber pistol slugs, can be fired with fair accuracy at short range (as with any submachine gun, the closer the better). Of all-metal construction, the...
Every Tuesday afternoon this cheery salutation whangs out to some 50,000 American Indians from Station WNAD at the University of Oklahoma. Roughly translated, it means: "Hello, my friends, this is Kesh-ke-kosh, me, myself, I am here, speaking." Kesh-ke-kosh is Don Whistler, a rugged Sac and...