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1941 Slat Grille Video

December 18, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, videos • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Mark Smith’s son Tom just completed this great documentary about a 1941 Slat Grille. George Baxter narrates the video.  The jeep is for sale.

Go inside Army Jeep Parts, Inc. and uncover a nearly perfect restoration of one of the oldest Willys Jeeps in existence. Delivered Christmas Eve of 1941 (not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor) this World War II Slat Grille marks the start of production of the American legend we all know and love.
THIS JEEP IS FOR SALE. Own a piece of American history by contacting: sales@armyjeepparts.com.

For more on George Baxter and Army Jeep Parts, Inc., visit: http://ArmyJeepParts.net.

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Band of Brothers Jeep Montage

December 15, 2015 • CATEGORIES: videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Joe found this video built from Band of Brothers’ clips. Pretty well done. The embedding has been turned off, so you’ll have to go to youtube to see it (click on the image below).

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Meyer Plowing Video

December 10, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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In a seasonally perfect topic, Tim forwarded this link that included a video that has some vintage video of jeeps moving snow with Meyer plows. The video notes that Meyer has been selling plows since World War II. I happened upon a second Meyer video on youtube, featuring 1960s innovations.  Finally, below the videos are four pages from a 1947 special equipment book showing early Meyer ads.

http://www.smithbrothersservices.com/meyer-drive-pro-plow-jeep-wrangler-install-picture-page.html

Video from the page above:

A video of Meyer products from the 1960s featuring a wagon and an FC using a plow:

1947 Special Equipment ads for Meyer products:

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1943 War Bond Parade Video Outtakes

August 21, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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This collection of video outtakes was filmed September 9, 1943, in downtown Philadelphia. It includes some famous motion picture actors riding in jeeps like Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, James Cagney, Greer Garson, Judy Garland, Dick Powell, Paul Henreid, and Harpo Marx.

http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A18719

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1944 Fox Movietone News Jeep as Blackboard

August 12, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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It seems the Americans waited until after they landed in France to start teaching some of the GIs how to speak French. Lacking blackboards, they turned to the underside of a jeep hood. The following Fox Movietone silent video clip is a collection of outtakes. The blackboard lesson begins at the 16:22 mark and lasts about a minute.

http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A16017

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1943 Fox Movietone Features Fire Jeep

August 11, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, Fire/Police/Industry Vehicles, Old Images, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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The October 26, 1943, Fox Movietone featured a one minute clip about a Toledo, Ohio, Fire Jeep. It appears to be built on a Willys MB Slat Grille. The clip appears at the 6:53 mark of the video. I managed to get a few still images:

http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/mvtnwarfilm/id/783

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1942 War Department Film — Jeeps Towing Trailers

August 9, 2015 • CATEGORIES: Features, videos This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Lots of jeep action. They drive the jeeps pretty hear near the end. At about the 8:30 mark there some hard driving video. The jeeps were bouncing pretty hard!

From archive.org: “Not the greatest film quality. National Archives description: “A 4.2″ mortar fires high explosive and phosphorus shells which explode on targets. Transportation of mortar and ammunition in large truck (10 men-10 rounds) is compared with that of a jeep towing a trailer bearing a mortar and ammunition (2 jeeps-6 men-48 rounds). Jeep and trailer units are tested at various speeds and on all types of terrain, fire mortars from barge landing craft as an island is approached, drive off barge, and are freed from ditches and other obstacles by their crews.”
National Archives Identifier: 24456”

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