MV Information

In this section Olive-Drab.com provides additional photos and information about specific types of military vehicles as well as a host of links to other pages and websites about military vehicles and related subjects. Some of the referenced Olive-Drab.com pages have more in-depth coverage of popular subjects like Military Jeeps while others expand on topics that don't fall into the major categories found in the Military Vehicles Guide.

M-3 Lee Medium Tank during exercises, Ft. Knox, KY, June 1942.

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Military Vehicle Information Index

Willys MB jeeps on carrier outside Willys-Overland Toledo, OH factory -- 1941.

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GM Defense brochure for the Light Service Support Vehicle (LSSV), 2005. Courtesy GM Defense.

M8 Greyhound Armored Car, built by Ford, 16 January 1945. On the 15th, men of the 101st Airborne Division entered Noville, five miles south of Houffalize. Early the next morning, the 11th Armored Division seized high ground along the highway immediately south of Houffalize. Southwest of the town, a patrol commanded by MAJ Joseph M. L. Greene met a patrol from the 2d Armored Division of the First Army's VII Corps.

M4 Sherman Medium Tank of the 746th Tank Bn supports Co I, 60th Infantry, 9th Inf Div during fighting near the Belgian border, 9 September 1944. Note hedgerow cutter still installed on front of tank.

A soldier, with the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force, Western Army Infantry Regiment observes a tank from USMC 1st Tank Battalion firing live rounds on rang 409 aboard Camp Pendleton, CA, 16 Feb 2011.

Two children from the Dong Jin Orphanage, near Inchon, Korea, 1964. The 117th Ordnance Detachment provided volunteer support for this orphanage while stationed nearby. US Army jeeps, M151 on left and M38A1 or right. Photo Courtesy Captain James Jubinski, 117th Ordnance Detachment.

Bob Stinson (US Air Ace Aerocobra Squadron), near Japanese positions at Uberri, New Guinea, February 1943.

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Loading a 1/4 ton 4x4 jeep onto Transport AP-71 at Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Newport News, VA, 22 October 1942. This jeep is part of the immense Task Force "A" being assembled for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa.

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