Bugme Posted January 7, 2009 Share #51 Posted January 7, 2009 Thought you guys would like to see this cool pic of a jeep grave yard thats on Life Google !!!......mike Let's see, does it come in anything other than OD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeper704 Posted January 7, 2009 Share #52 Posted January 7, 2009 Yes, in "rusty red". Erwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinb Posted January 8, 2009 Share #53 Posted January 8, 2009 I think I can see my Willys out there in the pile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted January 8, 2009 Share #54 Posted January 8, 2009 That scrap pile was in Pusan Korea in 1960 and you can see a larger version of this and another similar photo at http://tinyurl.com/KoreaJeeps - Here's a closeup of a section of the other one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
517th Posted January 8, 2009 Share #55 Posted January 8, 2009 Hi Readers. Cont...................... Cheers ( Lewis ) WOOOW, thats amazing, finding something like that in the middle of a field, WWOOOOWWWW!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted January 8, 2009 Share #56 Posted January 8, 2009 I saw these photos a few months ago in the LIFE archives. lest we forget.....Okinawa.....Italy Old Jeeps parked in a field rusting away unwanted. Location: Okinawa, Japan Date taken: December 1949 Photographer: Carl Mydans Size: 1269 x 1280 pixels (17.6 x 17.8 inches) Jeeps at vehicle dump transferred from US Army to the Italians near Leghorn. Location: Italy Date taken: 1947 Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt Size: 1280 x 839 pixels (17.8 x 11.7 inches) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted January 8, 2009 Share #57 Posted January 8, 2009 Vehicle dump transferred from US Army to the Italians. Location: Tombolo, Italy Date taken: 1947 Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt Size: 1280 x 819 pixels (17.8 x 11.4 inches) Jeeps at vehicle dump transferred from US Army to the Italians near Leghorn. Location: Italy Date taken: 1947 Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt Size: 1280 x 825 pixels (17.8 x 11.5 inches) and Halftracks too..... Vehicle dump transferred from US Army to the Italians near Leghorn. Location: Italy Date taken: 1947 Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt Size: 1280 x 872 pixels (17.8 x 12.1 inches) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aracin Posted January 8, 2009 Share #58 Posted January 8, 2009 I think I drooled on my keyboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebladeslinger Posted January 27, 2009 Share #59 Posted January 27, 2009 Neat photos. Rusty in peace jeeps:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted January 27, 2009 Share #60 Posted January 27, 2009 I actually saw something like that once myself. While living in Hawaii, I saw the PDO (Property Disposal) yard down near Pearl Harbor full of M151 jeeps one day. It was back in the 1980's and the 25th ID was turning them all in. They were being sold in lots for scrap, and the buyer had to sign a waiver that they would never be used on the open road. Apparently those wonderful uni-bodies developed some pretty significant cracks over time and were capable of folding in half while being driven. LOVELY, considering all the miles I had covered riding one in Germany for 3 years. Sorry, no photos, but like these, it was jeeps, jeeps, jeeps right up to the horizen line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pmuranyi Posted July 19, 2009 Share #61 Posted July 19, 2009 I-could-die-looking-at-all-the-jeeps................ Wow! What a grave yard. Never saw this photo before. Incredible Thank you! Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capa Posted July 19, 2009 Share #62 Posted July 19, 2009 Quick question-I have read where jeeps are referred to as peeps in contemporary WWII writings. Is there a difference and why was this term used? thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.T. Posted July 19, 2009 Share #63 Posted July 19, 2009 Found this here, hope it helps. http://www.willys-mb.co.uk/jeep-pics.htm'Jeep vs Peep'In the UK at any rate, there seemed to be a determined effort to call the jeep the 'peep'. The term Jeep was apparently used to refer to the Dodge command car.The 'Motor' Magazine of November 25th 1942 said " It was called the Peep because it was a reconnaisance vehicle. The newspapers called it the Jeep, but goodness knows why. The latter name has beeen given to a larger four wheel drive vehicle."Here is an original source from the 1940's. 'Crusader' was a British Army paper originally published by the Eighth Army the definitions are from the issue of January 27th 1946. EDIT: Pictures are lost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capa Posted July 20, 2009 Share #64 Posted July 20, 2009 Thanks D.A.T. ! One of the references was my great-uncle's unit diary. He was in the 701st tank battalion and they called them peeps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted July 20, 2009 Share #65 Posted July 20, 2009 Peep was more genrally used in Armored units... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeper704 Posted July 20, 2009 Share #66 Posted July 20, 2009 Yup, Armor and TD guys called them "peeps" also sometimes referring to Dodge trucks. Erwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spathologist Posted July 24, 2009 Share #67 Posted July 24, 2009 What's really sad is that there's no way America could produce such scrap piles today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Marion Posted July 29, 2009 Share #68 Posted July 29, 2009 I saw the yards full of surplussed 151s at Ft. Bragg back in '88 and piles of crushed 151's just last month. I'll have to get a pic next time I'm home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake36bravo Posted August 18, 2009 Share #69 Posted August 18, 2009 Just got these today. Transportation Corps captain getting friendly. I read today the captured box cars were reused wherever they found them. Wikipedia has a great write up on the TC. Red Ball express among other things. Named Jeep as well. The paper is Mimosa suntyp? Making Friends. Making even more friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake36bravo Posted August 18, 2009 Share #70 Posted August 18, 2009 Libby MT? or a gal named Libby. Unfortunately time took the answer away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake36bravo Posted August 18, 2009 Share #71 Posted August 18, 2009 Last one. There were some more but this particular store owner is bonkers on prices. I haggled for these really hard and teed her off for sure but got her down to reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake36bravo Posted August 18, 2009 Share #72 Posted August 18, 2009 Correct for WW2? I had to darken it to bring it out. Its legible but faint on the originals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
collector Posted August 23, 2009 Share #73 Posted August 23, 2009 http://www.kriegsberichter.de/Data/fake04e.htm for info on the paper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1A291E Posted October 19, 2009 Share #74 Posted October 19, 2009 Wow!! The top picture shows two GPA hulls...today a restored GPA will top $80.000.00 1A291E proud owner of a restored 1942 "script" MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33rdsignal Posted December 23, 2009 Share #75 Posted December 23, 2009 i cried Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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