USA Vehicles

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The old and the new meet on a military highway in India. Though motor transports carry much of the supplies, the camel, which has been the beast of burden from time immemorial, is drafted to do his part in the war effort also.

Sort of ironic that petroleum for motorized conveyance is being delivered via camel power.

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Pack artillery of the mountain troops setting out on a day's march for a test of the relative merits of the mule and the jeep.

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Geiger Field, Washington. Officers and men are taught to be on the alert for a gas attack at any time. This jeep appears at unexpected places and sends out a charge of tear gas from the ingenious device attached to the muffler. Those in the vicinity, to protect themselves from the irritating gas, must be able to don their masks instantaneously.

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Trainload of Dodges.

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Fedala, Morocco. Jeep rolling off a landing boat at Fedala harbor during the landing operations of the U.S. task forces there.

Is that a rifle on the hood?

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United States Army Air Force officers confering somewhere in the European theater of operation. At the wheel of the jeep is Major Marvin L. McNickle of Doland, South Dakota, with Captain E. A. Vinson of Monticello, Mississippi, and Colonel Harold B. Willis of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Kelly Field, Texas. "Julius Caesar," mascot of the Military Police. He boasts three ribbons and a pedigree.

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American tanks thunder down an English plain during group maneuvers. These are the modern juggernauts that are rolling up United Nations victories in the European theater.

United States tanks during group maneuvers somewhere in England.

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Trucks loading up at the gravel dump. Most of the gravel used for surfacing along the Alcan Highway was obtained from glacial deposits found alongside the roadway.

Dump trucks lined along the road with gravel to fill in the road along the Alcan Highway route.

Army trucks along the Alcan Highway form stiff competition for the local dogsled transportation.

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1957 Dodge bus owned by the US Army.





It looks like MAAG on the front bumper. So were these photos taken in Vietnam?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAAG

https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~ebol ... /MAAG.html

[BillyClanton]

Howdy
Yep, early VietNam. Military Assistance Advisory Group. After the French defeat, it was renamed the MAAG, Vietnam in 1955, and in 1964 was merged into the U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV),

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Crosley Pup light weight jeep in the foreground.





More Crosley Pup info here: viewtopic.php?f=85&t=151481

[podski]

AWESOME thread Roy !!!! Gobs of priceless reference material there. I for one, truly appreciate your effors. Keep 'em comin' !

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This article may be familar to some, as it was reprinted in a book concerning WWII Dodge trucks printed circa 1980's.