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The Airborne Lightweight Jeep Program During World War II, getting vehicles, especially Jeeps, onto the ground where military personnel could utilize them was of paramount importance for obvious reasons. But, how to accomplish that goal was less clear. A variety of strategies were considered, including turning jeeps into gliders (see bottom of article) or helicopters (rotabuggy) so they could fly themselves. However, both of these ideas proved unsuccessful. Therefore, the military chose to stick with transporting vehicles by plane. In order to make flights more efficient, they formed a plan to produce light duty, air-droppable jeeps. They called these jeeps extra lights (EL), lightweight jeeps or jeeplets. ........ more |
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The O.E. Szekely Mobile APU Navy Jeeps Like the other branches of the military, the Navy adopted the jeep early on as a valuable 'Reconnaissance Car'. Certainly, many Navy jeeps filled the recon role, such as serving officers as transport vehicles or providing shore patrol units with offroad capabilities. However, one particular application of the jeep was unique to the Navy: The use of jeeps as APU (Auxilary Power Units) on aircraft carriers. ........ more |
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Bantam Jeep trailer is used for war birds of a different kind... The World War II Weekend in Reading, PA is one of the finest displays of World War II military vehicles and war birds. Andy's Bantam Jeep trailer wasn't like any we had ever seen before. The Bantam Jeep trailer had been converted into a military mobile homing pigeon loft. ........ more |
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17th Annual PA Jeeps Show 2012 Parade of Jeeps York, PA
Enjoy seeing all of the top winning jeeps from this show! If you missed this show you don't want to miss this video you'll hear the roar of the engines and
see some of the nicest jeeps this show has to offer.
Military Jeeps are at the beginning of the video. |
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WarJeeps.com explores the military encampment at the Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival
in Butler, Pa, featuring the 1st Frontier Mechanized Cavalry out of Pittsburgh.
August, 2011.
Video by Direct-A-Friend Pictures. |
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Retro M715 the NuKizer 715 Mopar Undergrounds all-purpose truck that pays homage to the military Kaiser M-715 truck. ........ more |
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Flamin' Willys The BBQ season is here and we know you are hungry for this Jeep story! .... my friend suggested turning it into a BBQ grill like what they did on that movie "Gone in 60 Seconds". ........ more |
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California Dreamin' in Germany... Norbert Stöckl is from a small village near Friedberg (Elvis-town)* in Hessen, Germany Norbert writes, "as a little boy, I sometimes saw the american GI's driving with their US cars and Jeeps. It was then that I started dreaming to drive an american Jeep myself." ........ more |
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Military J20 in Sweden Peter Pettersson's 1983 J20 is not your usual J20 we are used to seeing here in the States. Peter claims the military J20's in Sweden were ordered by the airforce and have been used for personnel transports with a special camper on the bed, some of the trucks were ordered with a totaly galvanized "body no rust" Now that's something we wish Jeep would have offered here in the States. Peter's truck has only 5,700 miles on the engine which is a 360 with a 727 automatic trans, 4x4, dana 60 and dana44. According to Peter the customized bumpers and other equipment seem to be stock on all orders. ........ more |
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