This photo was published in the October 21, 1944, issue of the Saturday Evening Post.
1944 Photo of a Press Jeep in Paris
April 14, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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WWII Photographer Estate Sale Milwaukee, WI
April 11, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Allan shared the news that Jake Skoric, a photographer with who took photos before during (in the South Pacific) and after WWII will have his photos being sold over the next three days. As you can see in the preview photos here, there are thousands of photos being sold.
Read the story here: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2019/04/05/estate-sale-features-unusual-gallery-6-000-black-and-white-photos/3368768002/
View the estate sale info here: https://www.estatesales.net/WI/Milwaukee/53220/2166789
Photo of Lengthened WWII Jeep on eBay
April 11, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images • TAGS: Lengthened, Odd Body. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
This MB has been lengthened.
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“Offered is an original WWII time period photograph. The picture measures approximately 2″ x 2.25″. It belonged to a GI who served as a medic with the 1st BN Aid Station attached to the 1306th Engineer General Service Regiment under the 3rd Army.”
Negatives of Early Jeep Wagon and Girl on eBay
April 10, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
There’s something about these two photos I find simultaneously hypnotic and eerie (maybe ghostly?). I can’t quite figure out why that is. I can feel the wind blowing in them.
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“*1940’s – 50’s
(2) 2 1/4″ B&W Negatives
** Jeep Willys Wagon **
*** Medium Format Film ***
See Photos”
Photos of WWII Jeep Stuck in Sand on eBay
April 9, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
With all those people around, why not try to pick it up and out of the hole? These may have been taken on the Oregon Coast.
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“Three original photos of a flat fender Willys Jeep getting stuck in the sand. The bottom photo measures 2-3/4″ x 3-3/4″, The top two photos measures 2-1/2″ x 3-1/2″. Great condition.”
1945 Photo of Weasel Testing
April 8, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
This photo was published in the February 09, 1945, issue of the Saturday Evening Post, page 12. It shows a Weasel getting a muddy test with a jeep next to it.
1943 Photo of Roosevelt in Casablanca on eBay
April 4, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Note the modified side entrance of this jeep on the February 2, 1943, photo of President Roosevelt.
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1944 Photo of Jeep in Which a Nurse was Wounded on eBay
March 31, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
A nurse was wounded in this jeep on Saipan in 1944.
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“ORIGINAL WWII PHOTO – ORIGINAL TO THE TIME – NOT A COPY, SCAN, OR REPRO
QUANTITY: 1 – See the other original WWI & WWII photos that I have listed.
ITEM: Original WWII CONFIDENTIAL photo of Jeep that US Army Nurse 2nd Lt. Helen Lynch was wounded in on Saipan, 1944. Part of a large group of original PTO photos that I am listing. Most are of the Invasion and Occupation of Saipan and a few are of Tinian.
DATE: 1944 – photo does not glow under a black light.
SIZE: 3.75″ x 5”
CONDITION: Very Good; See scans..
BACK: Has paper tag with hand-typed description. Stamped “CONFIDENTIAL”. See last scan.”
Jeep Pics From Ebay
March 30, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay.
Here are an assortment of jeep-related pics on eBay
- British Airborne jeep with littler attached. This is a negative. Seller has other, similar negatives.
- Person in jeep.
- 1945 Photo of USMC jeep. This photo comes from a scrapbook that includes a history of its owner, Marine Captain Lewis Brazeal:
- 1944 Photo of US Navy Officer in Penarth, Wales, with Welsh Terror on the jeep hood.
Year? CJ-5 Photo on eBay
March 28, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
I’m guessing this photo was part of the 1955 CJ-5 introduction?
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“Vintage Jeep Vehicles News & Photos Press Photo KAISER JEEP CORPORATION”
Year? CJ-2A & Trailer Project Photo on eBay
March 27, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Is that a truck-bed trailer?
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“Vintage Jeep Vehicles News & Photos Press Photo WILLY’S 8 X 10”
1942 Photo of Jeep Lashed to a Raft on eBay
March 26, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
This photo captures a military test of a jeep lashed to a raft in a Los Angeles lagoon.
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“1942 Press Photo La, Calif. Army jeep on a raft in Army demonstration. Photo measures 9 x 7 inches. Photo is dated 7-3-1942.”
2 1950 Photos of Unloading Jeep in Korea on eBay
March 22, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
The price on these two identical photos is good. The photo appears to have been taken on September 20, 1950.
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“Original Korean War Press Photo dated 1950. (2 identical) Jeep unloaded from a Flying Boxcar plane at Kimpo Airport, taken by Photographer Stanley Tretick. 7X9″ the image itself is a bit grainy but theyre in great shape.”
1942 Saturday Evening Post with A Ford GP
March 21, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Bantam-FordGP-WillysMA-EarlyJPs, Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
On pages 48-29 of the August 15, 1942, Saturday Evening post featured an ad by the United State Rubber Company titled “Here’s Where Your Rubber is Going”. The ad included a Ford GP.
Sedan-Jeep From Facebook
March 21, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images, Sedan-jeep This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Farrell Fox shared this photo of what I call a “Sedan-Jeep” on Facebook. There was no year or caption. I loosely define a sedan-jeep as one which has had some kind of custom top and/or fenders, added that make the jeep a little more car-like.
1945 Photo of a Jeep stuck in Philippine Mud
March 18, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
This photo appeared in the February 03, 1945, issue of the Saturday evening Post, page 18.
1944 Article — The Jeep: A Mystery
March 15, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
This article was published on June 29, 1944, in the Sotoyome Scimitar newspaper out of Healdsburg, California. Mario shared it on Facebook.
November 1941 ‘Our New Army’ Pics
March 14, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Bantam-FordGP-WillysMA-EarlyJPs, Features, Magazine, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
These pics were part of an article in the November 11, 1945, issue of Colliers.
Re-Enacting the DeAnza Jeep Cavalcade April 6, 2019
March 9, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Event, Features, Magazine, Old Images • TAGS: cavalcade. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Steve Bovee just contacted me about the upcoming 70th anniversary of the De Anza Jeep Cavalcade, aka Hemet-Borrego Jeep Cavalcade.
He writes, “Willys Jeeps and Flat Fenders Welcome … Next month will be the 70th anniversary of the De Anza Jeep Cavalcade aka Hemet-Borrego Jeep Cavalcade. Some 400 vehicles, mostly Willys Jeeps, went on this epic off-roading event April 2, 1949.
To celebrate the anniversary a few flat fenders will be getting together on April 6th and will be retracing the original route, as much as possible. There might be several starting points, but the main one will be in Hemet and as in the first run we will travel south through Battista Canyon, stop in Anza for a snack and photo shoot and then head out to Coyote Canyon. Coyote Canyon part of the trail is for the brave at heart and there is only one way in and one way out so I’m sure some of us will stop there.”
You can read more about the original Cavalcade in this July 1979 article from Desert Magazine (below), which can also be found on Archive.org.
Odd Looking Jeep/Truck
March 7, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Roger Martin spotted this odd looking jeep-truck on Facebook. The caption indicates it was taken in December of 1960 in Vienna, Austria.
B.F. Goodrich Ad with Jeep on ebay
March 7, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
This ad was published in the March 6, 1943, issue of Collier’s. I wish I could locate an online archive for that magazine. Anyone know of one?
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“This is a vintage original ad, not a copy or reproduction. Neatly removed from magazine. Would look beautiful framed. Measures 10 and 1/2 inches by 14 inches.”
Wally Cohn — Jeep King?
March 6, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Magazine, Old Images, Other 4x4s, Sedan-jeep, Unusual • TAGS: Life-Magazine, Odd Body, Walter Cohn. This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
UPDATE 3: There are some broken links, so I’ll need to spend some time and clean up this post.
UPDATE 2: Daniel Strohl over at Hemmings provided a solid background update about Wally Cohn.
“Born in 1924 in Germany, his father and stepmother sent him to the Chicago area in 1937 both to live with family and to escape the increasingly anti-Semitic mood in Germany. After Kristallnacht, his older brother Herman, his father Siegfried, and his stepmother joined him in Chicago. Walter flew 30 missions for the U.S. Army Air Corps as a bombardier during the war, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bronze Star and rising at least to the rank of Sergeant. After the war, he served as a member of the chief justice’s staff during the war crimes trials in Nuremberg, then returned to the United States and founded W&W Foreign Auto Parts in Blue Island, Illinois.”
UPDATE: A reader named Clint just determined what type of vehicle Wally was using — A 1936-1940 Opel Olympia. Here are two links to images: Link 1 & Link 2. Thanks Clint!
ORIGINAL POST published in 2010: I ran across the images shown below and others. I didn’t think much of them until I looked more closely. It appears the builder, who I assume is Wally Cohn, has merged a 1936-1940 Opel Olympia with a MB to create, arguably, the first Jeepster-like vehicle, except it is four wheel drive. The ‘Wally’ appears to use the entire jeep drive train. If you look in back, you’ll even see this car can tow a trailer!
Who is Wally Cohn? I have no idea. I can’t seem to find anything about him, other than his name was Wally Cohn and he was nicknamed the Jeep King by photographer Walter Sanders.
Photographer Walter (Wally) Sanders worked for Life Magazine from 1944 to 1961. After growing up and leaving Germany for the US in 1937, he returned in early 1946 and lived the rest of his life in Europe, mostly in Munich. You can learn more about his biography here.
Because Walter was in Europe during December of 1946, and because these photos were snapped during that month, and because of Wally’s uniform (which Bob noted is an Army Airforce Uniform), I have concluded that Wally Cohn was a member of the armed services trying to merge cars and jeeps into a Wally vehicle of some kind (note the name Wally is displayed prominently on the dash in one of the pics).
This would be a great collector’s item — and a cool jeep too!
DJ-3A Dispatcher Pizza Jeeps
March 6, 2019 • CATEGORIES: DJ-3A, Features, Fire/Police/Industry Vehicles, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Mike spotted this 1960s photo on Facebook. It shows some DJ-3A Dispatchers doing pizza delivery work for Volcano Pizzeria, a North New Jersey pizza place in the 1960s. Mike notes there were a lot of pizza jeeps in the area at the time.
Lawry’s Seasoning Salt Jeep
March 5, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Mike shared this pic he found on Facebook. It appears to be a lengthened and modified CJ-2A (based on the windshield). Anyone know what happened to this jeep?
1945 Photo of Jeep & Soldiers on Raft on eBay
March 5, 2019 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Make-shift water crossing. As Race pointed out, “Nectar” should be spelled Neckar River in the text.
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“1945 Press Photo Infantry Support Raft Ferries Men & Jeeps Across Nectar River. This is an original press photo. With bridges blown up by retreating Germans, an infantry support raft ferries men and their jeep across the Nectar River. Part of the famous old university city of Heidelberg, now in American hands, can be see in the background. Photo measures 8 x 6.25 inches. Photo is dated 4-2-1945.”
