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Originally posted by Col Tigwell
When the first of our AD kits arrived, amongst all the parachutes, strapping, honeycomb and platforms, was a brand new jeep, complete with US army numbers and markings.
The explanation given to us by our US instructors, was for the early drops, they wanted a load that they were familair with, so they chucked the Jeep in.
We must have air dropped that Jeep so many times, until the end came.
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Reminds me of an M151A2 jeep I saw in a museum workshop in Canada. It came from the US Army and had been used as an instructional vehicle for air drops. Very low mileage, not a spot of rust, but the whole vehicle was so bent and buckled it could never be driven again.
Weren´t the M151/series jeeps known as "discardable"?
H.