WWII overseas documented vehicles are rare, but...


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Posted by john k. seidts on February 17, 2000 at 11:11:11:

In Reply to: Military Service for PW's posted by Jim C. on February 16, 2000 at 21:28:37:

You stand a good chance of buying a real WWII veteran if you buy one of the vehicles coming out of Norway or Sweden. In my twenty years of collecting, I have only found 4 or 5 WWII vehicles with documented service overseas returned near the end or right after the war. Two of them were right here in Maryland. After 1943, the war department had set up logistics in such a way that vehicles overseas didn't need to come back to be depot level overhauled- the depots were right there in theatre. After the war, if the material wasn't destroyed or used up in Greece, Indo-China, or the Marshall Plan, it was sold surplus in-country. There are great photos of huge bombed out warehouses in France, with large numbers of trucks being sold at auction.

I doubt that you will find any WC 1/2 tons with overseas service. Their production numbers were low, and most were sent to the South Pacific or North Africa, where they were ground up in the conditions. If you can find one with actual service, it will be VERY rare.


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