USA Vehicles

[gerrykan]

Corporal Mary Alice Kadelak O'Brien, Women's Army Corps, who is assigned as a driver to the Base Motor Pool at Bradley Field.

Date Created: 1944-11
Contributor: U.S. Army Air Corps
Source: Connecticut State Library, State Archives, PG 048

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctarchives ... hotostream

[gerrykan]

Private Virginia S. Peirson, a drvier for the Base Motor Pool, poses for the camera at Bradley Field.

Date Created: 11/27/44
Contributor: U.S. Army Air Corps
Source: Connecticut State Library, State Archives, PG 048

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctarchives ... hotostream

[gerrykan]

A blockbuster rests on the trailer of a military vehicle.

Date Created: 9/9/43
Contributor: U.S. Army Air Corps
Source: Connecticut State Library, State Archives, PG 048

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctarchives ... hotostream

[Chupa]

Check out the rear carrier and extended top on the jeep in the foreground.

Sign on large Quonset says "Eniwetak Club"

[Chupa]

Anyone recognize the woman?

Looks like Madam Cha'ing. Chinese President Cha'ing Kai Chek's wife (that's him on the left).

[Chupa]

Practicing beach landings with 1/2-ton Dodges. Any idea of the "when & where"?

It looks to be the test trials/ competition between various landing craft held on the East coast. The boat with the ramp is not a Higgins design. Perhaps a boat sank judging by all the personnel in the surf salvaging stuff.

[Chupa]

Souvenir kraut helmet near grill?

[Chupa]

Note no window cutout on jeep canvas top.

[gerrykan]

I think that I have all of the broken photo links repaired in this thread. Thanks for looking.

[gerrykan]

Her is a link to a WW2 film regarding the rebuilding of US Army vehicles in New Zealand.
Several slat-grille jeeps, also GMC and Dodge trucks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9m8RMHL ... e=youtu.be

[Ronnie Guin]

Greay video Roy!

[Escort]

Oops! Slaty on GPW frame. It seems they mixed the parts!
Tibor

[gerrykan]

Greay video Roy!

Ronnie,
A friend sent me the link, and I thought others may also enjoy it.

Oops! Slaty on GPW frame. It seems they mixed the parts!

Tibor,
Early jeep salad.

[majmacs]

I'd be willing to bet that that kind of out of line stencilling was the norm rather than the perfectly aligned stnecilling we see on restored Jeeps.

In fact, I have a book which states the UK and CDN troops were annoyed that they were instructed to put the US Allied star on the sides of their vehicles....as a presumed affront to their nationalist pride....the result was a number of CDN and Brit vehicles with intentionally tilted and imperfectly aligned stars( contrary to US Regs) as a form of silent protest.....

Note the USAAF stencil on the right side of the Jeep letters are out of line.

[Osgood]

I'd be willing to bet that that kind of out of line stencilling was the norm rather than the perfectly aligned stnecilling we see on restored Jeeps.

Note the USAAF stencil on the right side of the Jeep letters are out of line.

And who would dare replicate this on the back?