Ford jeep from the UK

[tankbarrell]

The bumper markings mean 1st US armoured div, 13th US armoured regiment. I strongly suspect them to be made up too! It looks like it might be an ex-British Army Jeep, though that does not mean it was not previously US Army.

[maple_leaf_eh]

In collecting circles the expression is, buy the <insert addiction of choice> not the story. Bruce Canfield is a prolific gun writer and collector. http://www.brucecanfield.com/cc-article.html

I remember skimming an article about a very ordinary WWII Jeep that was sold with a pedigree that suggested it had been Eisenhower's personal vehicle that he rode into Paris two days ahead of the Liberation. The bullet holes were German when Ike had had a shootout with his .45 and two Tigers under the Eiffel Tower. Absolutely silly for a smart collector or student of history. The trouble was as each buyer became a seller, every transaction added a bit more, until that Jeep ended in a French museum where it was the piece de resistance (pun intended) and virtually worshiped as a national treasure.

[Lynn Eades]

The number is correct for the US Army, in that a standard US Army Jeep rego number does start with the "2". It denotes the 1/4 ton.

[Darren Witty]

.....so are you guys trying to tell me the this jeep wasn't alocated to the Memphis Bell crew then???

[Lynn Eades]

Only after Eisenhower had finished with it in North Africa, and then France.

[Robert Bergeron]

But guys... you forgot to mention that it was also used by General Clark when he broke out of Anzio ! Eisenhower had lent him his Jeep for a short while ...as he was conferring with Stalin on the next phase of the Allied offensive !