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  1. NDT

    I bought a Burma Jeep, Ford GTB

    The "S" stands for "suppressed" as in electrical noise supression for operation near radios. Wow you are so lucky to have found those numbers! Since they are blue drab, that would have been the Ford factory application. And now we know you have a Navy contract truck, and it would have been...
  2. NDT

    I bought a Burma Jeep, Ford GTB

    Excellent information! Now we know what I said a few posts ago about only cargo trucks being stamped GTB is a false assumption. Thanks.
  3. NDT

    I bought a Burma Jeep, Ford GTB

    Well it took me about 45 minutes of digging, but I found Bryce Sunderlin's article on the GTB in the MVPA's Army Motors #25, Summer 1983. (Geeze I have been doing this a long time) According to the production summary, a bomb truck would have been a GTBS or GTBC. I will assume the frame would...
  4. NDT

    I bought a Burma Jeep, Ford GTB

    Did you find the serial number? Look in the usual Ford places like on top of the frame channel or on the side of the frame channel near the steering gear. MVPA Army Motors had a series of articles on the Burma Ford back in the 80's, I'll see if I can dig them up and reveal any clues. Your...
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