Jack Thompson was willing to share this vintage image. It shows a Willys truck in front of Mutts in Myrtle Beach. If you’d like a copy for some reason, email me.
Photo Credit: Jack Thompson • 915 West Broadway • Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
Jack Thompson was willing to share this vintage image. It shows a Willys truck in front of Mutts in Myrtle Beach. If you’d like a copy for some reason, email me.
Photo Credit: Jack Thompson • 915 West Broadway • Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
This photo is for sale on eBay.
“You are bidding on an original 7 x 9 Press Photo of Jeep Plows Through Spring Thaw Amchitka Island Base Aleutian. Photo is dated.”
Walter Hill, the director of the Horry County Museum, forwarded these pics from the Museum’s archives. Great images!
“Mr. Prather owned a service station in Myrtle Beach as well. He lived in a community on the Waccamaw River/Inter-coastal Waterway called Socastee, not far from Myrtle Beach. Anyone familiar with the area may be familiar with the Socastee Turn Bridge that allowed road traffic across the Inter-coastal Waterway and river traffic down the Inter-coastal Waterway.
Most of the pictures in this collection appear to have been taken near the end of WWII (some images in the collection show GI’s boarding the bus at the Draft office in Conway) up to the early fifties, judging by the automobiles in the pics. One picture shows a license tag on the jeep and I want to say it says 1952. Maybe better eyes can tell if I am correct or not.”
UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay.
The hood numbers we can see on this are clear (20388039). It would be cool if someone owns this.
“THIS IS AN ORIGINAL VINTAGE B&W PHOTOGRAPH IN VERY GOOD USED CONDITION – CONDITION COMMENSURATE WITH AGE & USE. OVERALL MEASURES APPROXIMATELY 2.3/4″ INCHES X 4.1/2″ INCHES.”
I found some Australian pictures at “The Brigade” that included three Bantam BRC-40 photos. There is a Ford GP photo as well. See all the vintage pictures here: http://thebrigade.thechive.com/2011/05/30/the-jeep-worked-hard-in-wwii-33-photos/
I found this interesting photo on MiliBlog (http://miliblog.co.uk/?m=201102). It has some great details. The caption read “General Slim Driving a Jeep with Mountbatten”
Dave saw yesterday’s post and promptly emailed this great photo of a welder enable MB.
Buz found this picture on a biography blog post about Gregory Duncan. Here, Greg is pictured with Bill Mauldin, a photo neither Buz nor I had seen. You’ll notice “Up Front” stenciled on the front bumper, which is also the name of a book published that contains a wide variety of his drawings.