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1944 Article w/ Picture of a Jeep Called Buzz Bomb

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This jeep was painted by Pfc. Joseph Chesley, who’s come up with some creative jeep names. This article appeared in the December 22, 1944, issue of the Arizona Blade-Tribune.

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2 Comments on “1944 Article w/ Picture of a Jeep Called Buzz Bomb

  1. Joe in Mesa

    Thanks for finding this Dave: sounds like a clever, talented guy. He’d be about 98 yrs old today… wonder if he still lives in Coolidge AZ?
    And I like the interface on the linked article… scrolls to zoom in-out, pans by dragging… nice!

  2. David Eilers Post author

    Agreed. Thankfully, the interface is used pretty widely at this point by a number of digital media libraries that store newspapers. It also provides the scans in a variety of formats. The ability to search through these newspapers (though still not a perfect system) was crucial to some of my research on SLAG.

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