Rll
The supply of vehicles to the USASOS was called Reciprocal Lend Lease. I wrote an article about it many years ago, published in Army Motors.
The Australian Govt supplied a myriad of articles to US Forces, and the value of these was placed on the other side of the Lend Lease ledger. By end of war, Australia had supplied around 75% of the value of Lend Lease items supplied to Australia, in RLL - so owed the US Govt the 25% difference.
The variety of motor vehicles was very broad: from little Austin 2 seaters to armoured scout cars. Just imagine some burley Yank liaison officer used to tooling about in a V8 at home in the US, being handed the keys to an Austin 2 seater as his 'liaison duty' vehicle. Would come as quite a shock I should think! And if a current-day restorer finished his little Austin with US registration and white stars on the doors, he'd probably be laughed at (but he may well be accurate!)
Mike
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