Wheels & Tracks magazine no. 53, p.36 features a set of pictures from R.D.(Dick) Okill of Cornwall who served in the British Army throughout WWII.
This pic is captioned "Chevrolet and Bedfords all looking very smart in Possilipo, 'a posh area of Naples' in late 1943" and was taken when when Dick was serving with the 37th LAA. I cannot figure out the camouflage scheme, but it could be an unofficial one:
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From Benghazi we went to Salerno and then on another landing at Castellammare for the assault on Naples. However, we stuck there for some time and liberated vast quantities of naval paint from the Italian Navy shipyard. We painted our troop vehicles, from sand pink, the green and dark blue and as I had two professional sign writers in my troop, they looked very smart with the camels on the divisional [signs] all wearing diferent facial expressions.
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Does any else have pictures and/or info on Chevrolet 1½-ton 4x4 trucks in Commonwealth service?
Hanno