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Show 'Ma Petite Cherie' Is Now a Jeep in Normandy It is the custom throughout our army, as you doubtless know, for soldiers to paint names on their vehicles. ve-hicles. They have names on airplanes, air-planes, tanks, jeeps, trucks, guns and practically everything that moves. Well, the boys have already started start-ed painting French names on their vehicles. I saw a jeep named "Bientot," which means "soon," and a motorcycle named "Char de Mort, which means "Chariot of Death." Pretty soon we will be seeing jeeps named "Yvonne" and "Ma Petite Cherie." The names of a lot of the French towns in our area are tongue twisters twist-ers for our troops, so the towns quickly become known by some unanimous application of American-ese. |
