Late-war/Post-war Jeep Questions

EdGrune

Member since
August 2005
From: Mansfield, TX

Late-war/Post-war Jeep Questions

Posted by EdGrune on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 10:19 AM

Note the additional bow across the top of the windshield frame. How was it attached, welded, bolted, or other? How far down the windshield did the bow legs exteend?

The tall skinny guy on the left is my father-in-law. The date on the back of the photo says Sunday April 7, which would make it 1946. He was in a civilian affairs unit attached to the American Red Cross (displaced persons, etc). Not a medic unit.

I don't see a hint of a star on the hood

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HeavyArty

Member since
December 2002
From: Valrico, FL

Posted by HeavyArty on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 10:37 AM

It looks like there are sections of tubing welded onto the sides of the window frame. The extra rod looks like it slides down into these tubes. I don't think it is a bow for the top though. More likely it was a handhold as the three guys are using it for. Maybe the jeep was used by dignitaries standing in it for reviewing troops or somethjing like that. I have seen other jeeps with handholds on the window frame for this purpose.

ADM Nimitz's jeep w/handhold.

LTG Patton's jeep w/handhold.

Unidentified jeep w/handhold in jeep dump on Okinawa. (Wish those had come home.)

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goldhammer

Member since
August 2014
From: Willamette Valley, Oregon

Posted by goldhammer on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 11:21 AM

A lot of those from Oki are probably still serving as Jeepnies in the PI..........

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Bish

Member since
December 2002
From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England

Posted by Bish on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 1:01 PM

A hand hold makes sense. Probably a field mod, you can see that Patons is differant to the one on Nimitz's jeep. Ed, the one in your pic loks more like that on Nimitz's jep only thinner metal.

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amphib

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May 2010

Posted by amphib on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 6:23 PM

Ed

What's with the jeep in the background with the front fenders extended to the front bumper and stars on each fender?

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goldhammer

Member since
August 2014
From: Willamette Valley, Oregon

Posted by goldhammer on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 6:30 PM

Helps keep sloppy mud chunks from being tossed over everyone when spinning the tires in those muddy conditions found after the tracked vehicles and trucks churned it up. IIRC, Patton's had sonething like it in the European theatre.