Indian Pattern bodies

[Hanno Spoelstra]

3-ton GS truck: today, I found some new pictures on the IWM website of 3-ton GS trucks with bodies of the same construction:


Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205208610
IWM SE 6742.jpg
"Under close supervision, Japanese prisoners of war load a lorry with crates of munitions from the former Japanese ammunition store in limestone caves at Batu, Selangor State, near Kuala Lumpur. These bombs and shells were later dumped at sea in the Straits of Malacca."


Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205208991
IWM SE 7463.jpg
"Japanese prisoners of war sit in the shade of lorries they have just loaded with some of the 100 tons of supplies flown daily into the city of Bandoeng by Dakota aircraft of 31 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Due to ambushes and sabotage by Indonesian nationalists on the roads between Batavia and Bandoeng, the only secure supply route to the latter city was by air."


Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205209018
IWM SE 7517.jpg
"Transport of the 2nd Battalion, Frontier Force Rifles (26th Indian Division) that carried men and material to establish a strongpoint just outside the British held sector of the town of Medan in Sumatra."


Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205209016
IWM SE 7515.jpg
"Troops of the 2nd Battalion, Frontier Force Rifles (26th Indian Division) unload material from their vehicles to construct strongpoints just outside the British held sector of the town of Medan in Sumatra."


Always interested to learn more about the construction and use of these truck bodies!

Thanks,
Hanno