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Here’s another round of pics from Charles.
greeting card -preparing for d d-day
1942 Postcard
airport base AVORD – 10 oct 1945–airbase avord not known to me suppose france ?
french vintage postcard
original clipping of newspaper 1960-stockton california-actor jamie farr in back of the jeep
photo taken in angola -africa
This photo from the late(?) 1950s shows a line of M-38A1s as Tooele, Utah’s, Army Depot.
“Jeep rebuilding area, Tooele Ordnance Depot. Production line showing parts bins and supplies adjacent to line.”
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/USHS_Class/id/25410/rec/2
Interesting card.
Original old from c1945 WWII postcard .
Caption :
Publisher / Editor / Series :
Condition : Excellent (no bends, tears or creases).
Size : Approx. 4″ x 6″ ( 10 x 15 cm).”
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UPDATE: Jay has got this book for sale. Comment below for more info.
It is Jeeper’s Jeep by Francis Baker. Here’s the description:
“Tokyo: Toppan Co, Ltd, 1949 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, of a charming collection of satirical genre prints à la japonaise: These are meant to represent some of “the humorous experiences of the occupation which the Jeep–certainly a symbol of the period, has enabled it [ie, the Occupation] to see.”
The author has recorded her impressions of American occupied Japan and various scenes of the occupation as she travelled the country by Jeep.
In all there are twenty-four prints accompanied by doggerel couplets on facing pages, together with two additional prints on the covers. The artist is best known as Frances Blakemore. She grew up in eastern Washington and worked mainly in Tokyo (both before and after the war), where she founded the Franell Gallery and published the standard Who’s who in modern Japanese prints (1975).
Binding: Publisher’s quarter red boards, color-pictorial sides, pictorial endpapers, all edges trimmed & plain
Condition: Spine barely chipped, inside clean, joints cracked but holding, outisde has shelf wear. AN UNUSUALLY VERY GOOD COPY of a scarce and fragile book.
Pictures include front and back of book, inside cover page, one of the full page drawings, and prologue.
Very rare I know only of one other in existence
51 pages 24 full-page color illustrations 179 x 262 mm, 10 1/4″ x 7 1/4″
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There is some great Bountiful Jeep Posse info at the Utah State Historical archives.
1. Early video of Jeep Posse in action. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to embed the video on this page, so …. Click on the photo below. A play button will appear. Click on that and a popup window with the video will appear. Neat video worth a view.
2. http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/USHS_Morton/id/87/rec/7
This great color photo shows, “Members of the Jeep Posse stationed in Bountiful, Utah. Two individuals identified as Koziol and Merk.”
3. http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/USHS_Morton/id/461/rec/8
My lovely wife took me to my cousin’s party tonight. The good news is I had a few drinks. The bad news is that, because of the drinks, there will only be a few updates today 🙂
Neat photo.
“1943 Press Photo U.S. Army jeeps in fallen city of Messina, Sicily WWII
This is an original press photo. Please see the included scans of the photo for additional information and condition. Photo measures 9 x 7.25inches. Photo is dated 08-25-1943.
Historic Images Part Number: nez23894”
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A clothing drive photo.
“1945- Female employees at the aircraft division of Willys Overland Motors in Toledo, Ohio, use Willys jeep to collect clothing for the United National Clothing Collection Drive. Photo measures approx. 8″ x 10″”
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Chris’ all stock CJ-3B
(Idaho) Todd is visiting his brother (Minnesota) Chris this week. Apparently, they got talking about eWillys, which lead Todd to drop me a note with some pics of some their jeeps, which evolved into another email with more pics. If I weren’t so busy with the book, I might have kept sending emails until they ran out of photos to send me 🙂 Together they have owned over 70 jeeps, so they have plenty of photos to share, so check them out below. (I hope I got all the captions correct!)
While picking up a jeep, we literally stumbled upon the American Pickers shop in Iowa! Yup, we were lost…
This is Todd’s Tuxedo Park IV. His son-in-law is driving, while Todd’s daughter’s enjoy the ride. He must REALLY like his son-in-law to let him behind the wheel!
UPDATE: According to the Willys Spring Reunion Facebook page, this might make an appearance at the Willys Spring Reunion in May!
Earlier this month Nick put together a video and some more pics that showed him picking up his barn find: the 1951 CJ-3A APU jeep modified by the Valentine Welder and Manufacturing Company. It’s a neat looking rig.
Here’s what Nick wrote: Hidden in a barn since 1962. As of Feb 5th, 2016 this is the only known Jeep of its kind. Valentine Welder purchased frames from Willys Overland, and converted them into what’s called an APU (auxiliary power unit). These were fitted with PTO-driven generators that started early jet aircraft. O.E. Szekely also made APU’s, but this is the only known Valentine and also the only original Navy paint of both companies. After a bunch of research I believe this was used on the USS Wasp (CV-18). I have the original government release paper and maintenance manual. It is truly a museum piece.
Here’s the video:
And, this is a link to the G503 page where he has posted more information and photos (lots):
http://g503.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1566726#p1566726