Is this a USMC jeep?

[ironage]

[img][img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w42/ironagedesigns/P5130001.jpg[/img][/img] There another number as well[img][img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w42/ironagedesigns/P5130002.jpg[/img][/img] Thanks Graham.

[ironage]

[img][img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w42/ironagedesigns/P5140015.jpg[/img]Its got this 0 on the back[/img]

[blackdog]

Are you sure that is a 0? It looks like there is something coming off the top of it as well...

[ironage]

Your quite right, I,ll get the wet and dry out and try and reveal it, could it be a unit marking?

[ironage]

Hi, its a o with a T coming of thge top... any ideas what it means? Thanks Graham

[blackdog]

It's from Camp Pendleton if it looks anything like this.



I had the feeling that's what it was!

(I'm a volunteer at the Mechanized Museum on Camp Pendleton...)

History lesson -- if I remember correctly the T and O stand for Texas and Oklahoma which is where the cattle were driven from when the Rancho Santa Margarita was first established (Rancho Santa Margarita is Camp Pendleton as of September 1942)...


Could you post some more photos please???

[ironage]

I,ll take some more, I haven,t rubbed any more paint of yet, so do you think it was at the USMC training camp in WW2

[ironage]

If it is from there and love to know some history of the camp etc, Its going to have to be retored back to the way it looked when it served there. The number on the side rear Quarters reads 43938, theres a number on the drivers side just behind front wing which reads 56585.

Thanks

Graham

[ironage]

If it is from there and love to know some history of the camp etc, Its going to have to be retored back to the way it looked when it served there. The number on the side rear Quarters reads 43938, theres a number on the drivers side just behind front wing which reads 56585.

Thanks

Graham

[Jamie M]

How did this USMC jeep end up in your neck of the woods?

[ironage]

Hi, it was imported from California by a company importing classic cars, I saw it come up on ebay, done the deal and now its in Essex England, I rang the previous owner in California, his Uncle had bought it in 1950 and used it for hunting deer in the Mountains, he put a Chevy v8 in it, then his nephew the last owner put a Buick V6 engine in it and used it until about 15 years ago then it just stood until someone saw it and bought it in 1996 for $600. and shipped it to britain. I,d love to find a picture of it at Camp Pendleton, I wonder if they have archive photos.

Graham.

[Mike W.]

It's from Camp Pendleton if it looks anything like this.

Was that a base sticker for all the military vehicles assigned there of any kind or only Marine ones?

[Mark Tombleson]

That is a very cool decal, Brian.

So, the yellow circle... and T, I wonder what the globe and anchor decal looked like back then and also wonder if it was inverted like the OFFICIAL ones I have photos of.

Did we ever do anything on that decal?

Oh, history:

In the early ‘40s, both the Army and the Marine Corps were looking for land for a large training base. The Army lost interest in the project, but in April of 1942 it was announced that the rancho was about to be transformed into the largest Marine Corps base in the country. It was named for Major General Joseph H. Pendleton who had long advocated the establishment of a West Coast training base. After five months of furious building activity, the 9th Marine Regiment marched from Camp Elliot in San Diego to Camp Pendleton to be the first troops to occupy the new base. On Sept. 25, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived for the official dedication.

http://www.pendleton.usmc.mil/cpao/pages/history.asp

[ironage]

[img][img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w42/ironagedesigns/P5160003.jpg[/img] Hi heres some more pictures, Does the museum have any archive pictures of jeeps at the camp? Thanks Graham[/img]

[ironage]