Willys MB
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The Willys MB and the Ford GPW, both formally called the U.S. Army truck, 1⁄4‑ton, 4×4, command reconnaissance, commonly known as the Willys Jeep, or simply Jeep, and sometimes referred to by its Stan
Covered Willy's jeep Wings Over Wine Country 2007
A 1941 Bantam achieving total lift-off, loaded with a 3-man crew, and towing a 37mm anti-tank gun. "Flying Jeep" photos like this one inspired posters and perhaps the 'Leaping Lena' nickname.
Bantam's first prototype, shown in front of the already new for 1940, "light" half-ton, 4×4 Dodge VC-1 Command Car, graphically shows the radically new 1⁄4‑ton concept.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, here in his jeep in summer 1944, wrote that the jeep was "one of the six most vital" U.S. vehicles to win the war
Dodge WC series
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The Dodge WC series, nicknamed "Beeps", and at first nicknamed jeeps, is a prolific range of light 4WD and medium 6WD military utility trucks, produced by Chrysler under the Dodge and Fargo marques du
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…motor vehicles that the U.S. produced during the war, and almost two-thirds of the 988,000 light 4WD vehicles produced, when counted together with the Dodge WC series. Large numbers of jeeps were provided to U.S. allies, including the Soviet Union at the time. Aside from large amounts of 11⁄2- and 21⁄2‑ton trucks…
The most produced variants in the range were the 3⁄4-ton, 4×4, WC-51 and WC-52 Weapons Carriers – shown a WC-51: short front bumper, without winch.
The "Ben Hur" 1-ton, 2-wheel cargo-trailer was frequently mated to the WC series trucks.
1934 K-39-X-4(USA) – Dodge's first military 4×4 truck
The initial Dodge VC-series, half-ton military 4×4s, were based on the 1939 T-series like this