U.S. Willys M-38A1 in Canadian Service?

[Eric B]

The first batch of M381's were bought from the US and shipped to Korea to replace the WW2 era jeeps.

We left the WW2 era vehicles there as well as the non compatible M series vehicles (M37, M211 etc) we bought directly from the US, to what was being built in Canada.

We did ship back the M38A1's and for some unknown reason removed the heaters before shipping.

So if you have a Canadian 1952/53 US built M38A1 then it was used in Korea.

More info can be found in "Canadian Vehicles in Korea" written by Don Dingwall and published by Service Publications.

We did not use the M38's in Korea, those were shipped to Germany.

Thanks
Eric