M151A1 "jeep" in RAAF service?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

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.

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.