Showing posts with label Jeep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeep. Show all posts

The Flying Tigers, 1942

https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/18706194828/ Marc pointed out this is probably a early Ford export, the GP, and not the Willys d...
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Drawings of Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944 B-17 during the Battle of Guadalcanal

https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/18899793572/in/photostream/ this last one is in a C47 transport Sgt Brodie (1915-2010) was an am...
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"Soldier taking a bath" Ed Reep. There was a fellow who hauled a bathtub out of Notuno, and filled it with water, and then he punched a hole in the gas tank and lit it.

The painting was nutty. That's all there was to it. How in the world could this man be smiling on a beachead where shell fire would come...
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Yellow gear 3 wheel "Jet Starter Jeep" assisting with a Grumman Panther engine maintenance in the 1950s.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/26507546033/ Early jet aircraft didn't have on-board power units to start the engine, so the...
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yellow gear jeep and an Liberator assembly ship

found on  https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/27043322161/ I posted about the assembly ships a while ago  http://justacarguy.blogspo...
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experimental prototype fire fighting Jeep in the Navy demonstrating using AFFF to fight a training fire on a WW2 warbird, with an audience in the background

Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. Demonstration of a new fire fighting jeep, 7 October 1952. Demonstration aircraft is a Douglas B...
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