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Ahab once the big buyers got them home and divided then they sold them to individuals at a huge profit.
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Ahab once the big buyers got them home and divided then they sold them to individuals at a huge profit.[/QUOTE]
And so the individual bought them twice:
- First as the taxpayer (who paid for them in the first place).
- And then as the private buyer getting sucker-punched by the big buyers.
Go figure.
If it had a PTO setup it more than likely was a civilian CJ-2a. Look almost exactly like an MB except for a few things. Jeep and other companies also sold sawmills to be powered by the CJ-2a.Those U.S. Jeeps couldn't be beat. Just how versatile was the old Willys JEEP?
Here's one of the comments to me from a cousin (after questioning if anyone knew where it came from):
I also remember the power take off being used to saw lumber out behind the raspberries. It was also used at the hog slaughtering days to hoist up the hogs for butchering and bleeding, but I can’t remember how it was applied for this task.
Of course the question is "did they ship back?", but this is just offered as a sidebar to the main topic (kind of a savory to the main course). OK, back to the dinner table….
One thing for sure:My Uncles last job in WW2, in the Pacific, was starting NEW Shermans and running them off into the ocean. He asked his Captain why he was doing that. He was told "We can build more tanks, our #1 thing now is to get everybody home."
My father had a story about the ETO soldiers who only got as far as Ft. Dix. He took over a company at Dix in late 1946 and found he had over 300 Garands in the arms room, when he had only signed for 168. The extras were from ETO soldiers who got out of the army after VJ Day. And, no, he didn't keep any of the extras (to my dismay)!There were some shipped back, but it was a tiny percentage of those that left the country.
A lot depended on the units they were assigned to. Units that ceased to exist overseas and sent everybody home left everything. a lot of ETO units were sent stateside enroute to the Pacific when Germany surrendered and much of their equipment was sent back with them, then they never made it over before the Japanese surrendered.
Some units stayed on occupation duty and vehicles they had sometimes were shipped back as units rotated.
The color picture was built by the GA MVPA for a national convention. No one has ever found a jeep in the crate other than at the bottom of the ocean. Most jeeps were not crated for shipment just stacked.Thank you for posting that. I swear, every time I drive the Jeep somewhere I have to hear this story.