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Will post a few from my albums. Mainly from my grandfather with Support company, 689th Field Artillery Battalion, but a few from his friends and his brothers. I have no idea whose are whose unless I know who is in them. I will label them as they are on the back.

 

1. Camp Coxcomb. Service Battery Kitchen and Truck

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2.Car at Berchtesgaden

 

(Front bumper looks to have 101st patch on plate)

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3. Near Regensburg Germany

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4. Apache

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5. Apache

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6.Untitled

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7. Untitled

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I have a few more but they are more or less the same photos but with different guys posing in them.

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Here are a few pictures from an album I recently acquired. I usually don't buy albums that aren't associated with Alaska in some way, but there were way too many great pictures in the album to pass it up. The owner was apparently with a pre-war Cavalry unit for stateside training.

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Bantam Jeep and a slat-grill

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T11E1 Marmon Harrington Real Picture Post Card

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Dodge VC command car

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A few of the many scout car photos.

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It’s hard to see the vehicles in these pictures but maybe the experts here can see something of interest. The first one is my Dad at Fort McClellan, AL in 1940-41. I tried to close up in on the trucks as best I could. 
 

The  second picture he took on Okinawa during the fighting there.  He was in an anti-tank company of the 27th Infantry Division. There is something not quite visible towing the cannon. And there is a front fender of a jeep or something on the right. 
mikie
 

 

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7 hours ago, Salvage Sailor said:

USCG Truck in the canefields on Oahu, 1945

 

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I think that's an International?

 

4 hours ago, mikie said:

It’s hard to see the vehicles in these pictures but maybe the experts here can see something of interest. The first one is my Dad at Fort McClellan, AL in 1940-41. I tried to close up in on the trucks as best I could. 
 

The  second picture he took on Okinawa during the fighting there.  He was in an anti-tank company of the 27th Infantry Division. There is something not quite visible towing the cannon. And there is a front fender of a jeep or something on the right. 
mikie
 

 

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Those look like 1/2 ton Dodge WC's too me

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Salvage Sailor

"Carbon Dioxide Fire Truck"

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RG 1325-003-206 Delaware in World War II

Official Air Force photo

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Harold Biondo
On 7/29/2023 at 3:03 PM, Salvage Sailor said:

"Carbon Dioxide Fire Truck"

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RG 1325-003-206 Delaware in World War II

Official Air Force photo

That's an Army Air Corps Class 150 Crash Truck, known as O-1 Crash Truck to the Air Force.

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Not just another Jeep picture, but a picture of my Dad in a jeep at Fort Bliss in late '42 or early '43. The second photo was taken at the same time/location but the driver is unknown. Note the name "Taffy" on the rear quarter.

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23 minutes ago, GWS said:

Not just another Jeep picture, but a picture of my Dad in a jeep at Fort Bliss in late '42 or early '43. The second photo was taken at the same time/location but the driver is unknown. Note the name "Taffy" on the rear quarter.

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Hi GWS,

 

Wow what a fabulous photo, your father in one of the earliest Jeep models a Bantam BRC ( Bantam Reconnaissance Car ) possibly built around June 1941, these are a very rare find today and very-very  few survived to become collectors pieces.  

 

Thank you for sharing with us,   I want to keep a copy of your father and the Bantam.

 

regards lewis.

 

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Thanks for the kind words General!  I didn't really  know what make/model Jeep it was so I really appreciate your information on it. He would have been 18 or 19 years old at that time. Does the hand painted "B C car" on it mean anything to you? He was in a tank destroyer unit at that time.  Any idea on the other Jeep? Thank you so much.

 

 

                             Steve

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