WW2 Jeep & Trailer
The Willys MB and the Ford GPW, both formally called the U.S. Army Truck, 1⁄4-ton, 4×4, Command Reconnaissance Vehicle, commonly known as Jeep or jeep was a highly successful off-road capable, light, military utility vehicle, built in large numbers to a standardized design from 1941 to 1945. About 650,000 units were built for the Allied forces in World War II. The jeep became the primary light wheeled transport vehicle of the Allies in World War II as well as the postwar period, with President Eisenhower once calling it, "one of three decisive weapons the U.S. had during WWII". The Jeep trailer was a small, 1/4-ton payload rated cargo trailer designed to be towed by Jeeps. Versions of the quarter-ton jeep trailer remained in military use, by the U.S. and other countries, at least through to the 1990s. Willys built about 60,000. Bantam built 73,689 of these, and possibly more after the war.
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