I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to send me their original
photograph.
Especially Charles Baisden, AVG - Flying Tiger,
Dick Rossi, AVG - Flying Tiger, Bill Garriott, and
Frank Warner. New additions from Colin Stevens,
DO YOU HAVE ORIGINAL WWII JEEP PHOTOGRAPHS FROM FAMILY MEMBERS?
If so, please send them to me (email, or USPS) so I can share them
with the world. Thank you, Brian
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Warner Very Early Jeep Photo & Jeep Letter
May 1942, Camp McQuaide, California |
March 26, 1942 Pasadena, CA |
Subj: Re: Warner Jeep letter
Date: 8/29/2002 9:08:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: frank_warner@yahoo.com
Hi Brian,
Here is my father Sgt. Thomas E. Warner's Jeep letter to his Aunt Dora
Warner. My father lives in Stowe, Pennsylvania, these days.
He has four sons. The March 26, 1942, letter with the drawings, is addressed
to his Aunt Dora E. Warner in Whitford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, but
really is to both his Aunt Dora and his Aunt Rena Kilkery.
--- Frank
It says:
March 26, 1942 [Letter from Pasadena, California]Subj: Re: Warner Jeep Photo Date: 8/29/2002 9:08:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: frank_warner@yahoo.comHi Aunties,
I received the fudge yesterday and was very glad to receive it. That's one thing that I've wanted since I've been out here on the West Coast. Homemade fudge just hit the spot. When I get back I'll have some more or even better -- sometime again, you can send me some more. Thanks a whole lot.The other day I was on guard again. It wasn't day it was morn-ing. Time: 2:00 AM to 6:00 AM. Just walking around the motor pool those four hours. I'm still tired from walking and stiff.
Yep, I think I'm a driver. They've assigned me to a car, and trying to give me some work to do, but I still haven't gotten my license so I can't drive yet.
[drawing]
My jalopy looks something like this. It's a Dodge four wheel drive. They call it a "carryall" or "panel car."
At Monmouth we called them "jeeps," but a jeep looks something like this.
[drawing]
Anyway it looks something like that. It's a reconnaissance car.
[drawing]
A peep is on the order of this, but in about a month or less I'll send you pictures of each to show you what these scribbles are.
Your loving nephew,
Tom
--- From: BriMilJeep ---
Hi Frank, WOW GREAT PICTURE!
That's a really early jeep - solid steering wheel, fire extinguisher mounted
on passenger side, solid rims, round muffler. Leather Rifle Scabbard hanging
on driver's side windshield arm. No radio junction box on passenger side.
Great! Thanks again --- Brian
Dr. W. R. Eubank, Capt. US AAC, and his Alaskan Jeep
This is the very first Bantam prototype, Bantam Pilot Model #1, just before delivery. Bantam designer Karl Probst is in the passenger seat, and Bantam manager Harold Crist is in the drivers seat. Note the rounded grill and fenders. |
US Army 1938 Marmon-Herrington, Ford 4x4 Reconnaissance Car with two .30 caliber machine guns. It was based on the same chassis used for the T1 Bomb Service Truck. It never went into series production. |
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1941 Ford Pygmy Prototype Jeep |
1941 Willys Quad Prototype Jeep |
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1941 Bantam Prototype Reconnaissance Car Mk-II / BRC-60 at Camp Borden, Ontario, Canada |
1941 Ford GP Prototype Army Jeep jumping |
1941 Willys Quad Prototype Jeep being driven up the stairs at the Capital, Washington, DC |
1941 Bantam Prototype Reconnaissance Car Mk-II / BRC-60 at Camp Borden, Ontario, Canada |
1941 Ford GP Prototype Army Jeep getting airborne |
Willys MA Prototype Jeeps on assembly line, 1941 |
1941 Bantam Prototype Reconnaissance Car Mk-II / BRC-60 at Camp Borden, Ontario, Canada |
1941 Ford GP prototype Jeep driven by Colonel H.J. Lawes, Post Commander, Quartermaster Motor Transport School, Holabird Quartermaster Depot, Fort Holabird, Baltimore, Maryland. Photo dated 1942 |
1941 Willys MA prototype Jeep at the Desert Training Center, Indio, CA, June 1942. |
2 Bantam BRC-60 MkII 4x4 Light Reconnaissance Cars (Postcard) |
Ford GP, Willys MA, and Bantam BRC prototype jeeps at testing trials conducted by US Army |
1941 Willys MA Prototype Jeep at Camp Pickett, VA (Postcard) |
WAC with 1941 Bantam BRC-60 Mark II Prototype Jeep (Postcard) |
1941 Willys MA Prototype Jeep |
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1941 Bantam BRC-40 Prototype Jeep |
1941 Ford GP prototype 1/4 ton 4X4 Light Reconnaissance Car |
1941 Willys MA Prototype Jeep |
1941 Bantam BRC-40 Prototype Jeep with experimental 37mm Antitank Gun mount |
1941 Ford GP Prototype Army Jeep with 4-Wheel Steering |
Willys MA with Santa at Camp Lee, Virginia, Quartermaster Replacement Center, Christmas 1941 |
1941 Bantam BRC-40 Prototype Jeep with experimental 37mm Antitank Gun mount |
2 early Ford GP prototype Jeeps in convoy. |
1941 Willys MA prototype Jeep at Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Even the tough little jeeps must be serviced. This vehicle, like all others of its class, makes regular trips to the grease pit for lubrication, adjustment, and general inspection. |
A Bantam BRC prototype jeep and towed M3 antitank gun going airborne during testing at New River, North Carolina. |
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Early Ford Script GPW Jeep towing a .50cal Anti-Aircraft Gun |
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WWII Jeep Junk Yard. GPA's, Jeeps, and Jeep Trailers in heaps |
Very Early Jeep Wreck |
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Early Willys Slatgrill 30cal Water Cooled Machine Gun Jeep |
Early Willys Slatgrill MB Jeep |
Early Willys Slatgrill Ambulance Jeep |
British SAS - Special Air Service - Jeep |
Early Jeep and Anti-tank guns of the defending forces in maneuvers at Liliha and Judd Streets, T.H. |
US Marine Corps Front Lines Ambulance Jeep |
British Airborne Commandos in a loaded down WWII Jeep and English Trailer |
Jeeps, Jeep Trailers, and Medical equipment for combat use of an infantry battalion aid station on Oahu, T.H |
US Marine Corps Ambulance Jeep stuck in mud on Okinawa |
British Airborne Commandos unload their jeep and towed 20mm Cannon from their crashed glider. |
Early AAF Jeep. Basic flight training at Spence Field, Moultrie, GA pre-May15, 1942. The trainer is a BT-13 "Valiant". |
Early USMC Jeep and auto at the Main Gate, El Toro USMC Base, El Toro, CA |
British(?) Assembly Area full of Jeeps in Rare Mickey Mouse Ears Camouflage Paint Scheme |
Jeep Being loaded into a C-47 in Italy |
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A soldier of the 442nd RCT hangs his laundry on a jeep so it won't be lost during a sudden move in Castellina Sector, Italy on 12 July 1944. Notice anti-decapitation device, tow rope, and windshield cover. |
LST loaded with many Jeeps and water buffalo trailers. Coast Guard LST lands Marines during Cape Gloucester, New Britain invasion. December 24, 1943. (PhoM1c Don C. Hansen) |
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Members of the 442nd RCT advance in the Chambois Sector, France. Notice antidecapitation device, tow rope, M1917 watercooled .30cal machine gun on M-48 dash mount, unusual rifle rack location, windshield cover, and jeep trailer. |
Two soldiers of the 442nd RCT are in a Jeep accompanied by two French guides in October 1944 in the Chambois Sector, France, Notice unusual mounting of metal rifle holder and hand pick through side grab handle. |
Delivering mail from a jeep of the 442nd RCT Notice leather rifle scabbard and windshield cover |
Secretary of War Henry L. Stinson greets a Captain of the 442nd RCT on Route 68, north of Cecina, Italy on 06 July 1944. Jeep has fender mounted decontaminator, siren, and windshield cover. |
Members of the 100th Infantry Battalion load confiscated German material onto a Jeep Trailer at the Fifth Army concentration area in Brescia, Italy on 18 May 1945. |
Jeeps following President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he visits Hawaii: The presidential party arrives at St. Louis Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii. The famous Diamond Head looms in the background. |
WW2 Coast Guard Jeeps |
WWII Coast Guard Port Security Patrol Jeep in NY Link to Coast Guard Port Security article (with Jeeps) |
Attack Vehicles Enter LST On Beach. LST 404 was transfered to the Brits in 1942, so this may be a photograph of the mobilization for Normandy. Another LST has a card on the bow reading LST-15, which was in the Pacific. The jeep at the lower right has a one-star general's license plate and the general can be seen in the passenger's seat. (See follow up letter on my WWII JEEP STORIES Bulletin Board) |
Jeeps and other Military Vehicles awaiting shipment to France at Southampton docks prior to the D-Day landings. |
General Eisenhower having lunch on the hood of a Jeep at an AAF base. Notice bullet shape siren on right fender of jeep. |
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Australian Army MB/GPW Jeep fitted with Railroad Wheels |
Unkown GI in Jeep. Notice correct single front footman loop for shovel strap. |
ETO Late War MP Military Police Jeeps |
Army MB/GPW Jeep fitted with Railroad Wheels |
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Sarge from Disney / Pixars movie CARS |
Early Willys Slatgrill MB with M6 37mm Antitank Gun and dash mounted M-1917 Watercooled Browning .30cal Machine Gun. South Pacific Natives see Marines for the 1st time during WWII.
6wheel jeep Camp Gordon Johnston WWII US Army Slat Grill Willys MB Jeep, Stationed in Alaska During WWII |
MB/GPW WWII Jeep in a SUP crate (Photo is linked to Lg pic) Click here for Extra Large Pic |
WWII Jeep on Deck of submerged Submarine
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Pre-WWII Bantam Prototype Jeep cigarette poster (vintage advertisement) |
WWII Jeep Engines - Cheap! (vintage advertisement) |
DO YOU HAVE ORIGINAL WWII JEEPS PHOTOGRAPHS FROM FAMILY MEMBERS?
If so, please send them to me (email, or USPS) so I can share them with the world.
Thanks, Brian
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