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Awesome photos!!!!! Usually Pattons jeeps had extra armor in the pics Ive seen, but who knows maybe he had an ordinary one too!!!!......mike

 

With the amount of goofing around this guy is doing, I kind of figured he was maybe a newspaper/reporter type who wandered into Patton's headquarters and started fooling around. He is likely to fat to be a real paratrooper, and I can't imagine that this type of behavior would have been accepted by any officer in the area from an enlisted man (I dont even see any rank insignia). My feeling was that he "upgraded" this jeep he was fooling around in from one he encountered at Patton's headquarters to calling it Patton's actual jeep.

 

I wonder if the puppy was Patton's as well?

 

Patrick

  • 1 month later...
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thought I would share this unit marked jeep. The 9th Div emb and one I havent seen yet, a wagon wheel with a horse head. Anyway thought I would share and see what you all thought.

 

Mike

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thought I would share this unit marked jeep. The 9th Div emb and one I havent seen yet, a wagon wheel with a horse head. Anyway thought I would share and see what you all thought.

 

Mike

 

It is the Distinctive Unit insignia for the 9th Reconnaisance Company.

Posted

thanks so much!

 

Mike

It is the Distinctive Unit insignia for the 9th Reconnaisance Company.
  • 5 weeks later...
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Thought you guys would like to see this cool pic of a jeep grave yard thats on Life Google !!!......mike

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militariacollector
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Poor things. Any idea where or when this was taken?

El Bibliotecario
Posted

At last..now we know what happened to the apophrical $200 new-in-the-crate jeeps...Sam junked them.

General Apathy
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Poor things. Any idea where or when this was taken?

 

 

Hi, there's this one and a few more photos similar to this on the LIFE photo website, I believe it states Korea.

 

Cheers ( Lewis )

pathfinder505
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Hi, there's this one and a few more photos similar to this on the LIFE photo website, I believe it states Korea.

 

Cheers ( Lewis )

 

I would bet they arent there now.

General Apathy
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I would bet they arent there now.

 

Hi Pathfinder, you should have seen the stuff that was laying in the fields and scrapyards in France back in the mid 70's, I will try and dig a few photo's out for tomorrow.

 

But I can tell you, these have all gone.

 

Cheers ( Lewis )

General Apathy
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Hi Everyone, as mentioned in the other post above, here is some of the roadside scrap that was laying in many fields through France. Partly the reasons being, the Jeep vehicles the farmers were scavenging the parts and keeping their own Jeeps going, the heavy tank stuff was too expensive to cut up or tow away.

 

Myself and a group of Jeep friends once found laying in a pig pond a couple of Jeeps, one of which was not desirable at that period but now it's gold if it was still there. It was not only four wheel drive it was Four Wheel Steer

 

The photo in this post and the following post were taken in the mid 1970's

 

I will see what other ones I have to show tomorrow.

 

Cheers ( Lewis )

General Apathy
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Hi Readers. Cont......................

 

Cheers ( Lewis )

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Thought you guys would like to see this cool pic of a jeep grave yard thats on Life Google !!!......mike

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Let's see, does it come in anything other than OD? ;)

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I think I can see my Willys out there in the pile.

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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:

 

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Hi Readers. Cont......................

 

Cheers ( Lewis )

 

WOOOW, thats amazing, finding something like that in the middle of a field, WWOOOOWWWW!!!!!!!

Salvage Sailor
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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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  • 3 weeks later...
Posted

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.

  • 5 months later...
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I-could-die-looking-at-all-the-jeeps................

Wow! What a grave yard. Never saw this photo before.

Incredible

Thank you!

Paul

Posted

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!

Posted

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

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