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Willys MA Photos on eBay

March 3, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Bantam-FordGP-WillysMA-EarlyJPs, Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Several other photos are included with these two Willys MA photos.

“From a lot of 29th Inf Regt photos I’ve selected a small group showing highlights from the motor pool. Of particular interest are the two shots of the early Willys MA jeep. You can just barely make out the unit stencil on the front bumper. I’ve included shots of a couple Dodges with better unit markings – all vehicles are parked in front of same garage (Ft. Benning?) Period photos of the MA jeep are not all that common. All images have same back mark and are all 3.25″ x 4.5″.”

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More Images from the Canadian Archives

February 24, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Here’s another round of images from the Library and Archives of Canada.

Here’s a shot of a MB Slat Grille, however no description information was available:

Here’s another image with no description.  I thought the blacked out numbers were interesting.

Canadian war correspondents in a jeep, Modica, Italy, 13 July 1943.

Private W.E. Lynch cleaning the engine of a jeep of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, Luthe, Germany, 9 April 1945.

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Images from the National Archives of Canada

February 24, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Fire/Police/Industry Vehicles, International, MB, Old Images • TAGS: , . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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I stumbled upon the National Archives of Canada the other day, discovering a variety of WWII Jeep images related to Canadian forces.  Here are a few ambulance shots:

1945 in Germany:  Personnel of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (R.C.A.M.C.) loading a casualty into a Willys MB ambulance jeep, Sonsbeck, Germany, 6 March 1945.

1945 in Germany: Private F.J. Dunn resting on his ambulance jeep while evacuating casualties south of Bad Zwischenahn, Germany, 29 April 1945.

1945 in France: An ambulance jeep of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (R.C.A.M.C.), Vaucelles, France, 20 July 1944.

1943 in Italy: A jeep ambulance of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (R.C.A.M.C.) bringing in two wounded Canadian soldiers on the Moro River front south of San Leonardo di Ortona, Italy, 10 December 1943.

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Life Magazine Jeep Photo Slide Show

February 21, 2013 • CATEGORIES: CJ-2A, Magazine, Old Images, Women & Jeeps • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Robert spotted this great link of Life Magazine Photos. The photos range across the decades, including black/white and color ones.  This was photographed by Myron Davis for the July 1945 issue.

http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/browse/jeep?hl=en

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Photo of First US Man Drafted for WWII Elmer Banke with Jeep on eBay

February 19, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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It’s the man in the photo that makes it most interesting.  This seller has more jeep photos he is selling.

“This is an “ORIGINAL PERIOD GLOSSY PHOTO BY U.S. AIR FORCE” of JEEP INSPECTOR SGT. ELMER BANKE WHO WAS THE FIRST MAN TO BE SELECTED FOR THE PEACE-TIME DRAFT IN 1940, photo date -1947. The condition is very good and measures 8″ x 10″. I will be listing more Military Vehicle photos in the weeks to come if you are interested.”

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Photos of Stretched MBs/GPWs

February 18, 2013 • CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Sarge Mark spotted a variety of stretched MBs/GPWs on a 2009 post from Jeep-jitsu. You can see all the photos here:
http://jeep-jitsu.blogspot.com/2009/12/blasts-from-past-pre-cj-6-jeeps.html

jeep-jitsu-stretchedmb4You can view other stretched jeeps that I have found for sale or around the web here, some in odd ways.

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