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Today in WW II: 11 Jul 1940 US Quartermaster Corps asked 135 companies to bid on seventy light reconnaissance and command cars, the origin of the military jeep. More ↓
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11 Jul 1941 Establishing the first US foreign intelligence organization, Wm. J. Donovan becomes Coordinator of Information, head of the organization renamed OSS in 1942, the predecessor of the post-war CIA.
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M-109 Truck, Van, 6x6, ShopThe M-109 Truck, Van, 6x6, Shop is part of the G-742 (M-35 or M-44) series of 2 1/2 ton trucks. The many models of the very successful G-742 trucks were in Army inventory from the mid-1950s into the 1990s. Details of the history, model numbers, and configurations of the M35-series of 6x6 cargo trucks is on the linked page.
M109A3 Truck, Van, 6x6, Shop being lifted by crane aboard SS Mostween 7 for shipment from the Port of Houston to the Middle East in support of Operation Desert Shield, 30 November 1990.
M-109A3 Shop Van at DRMO.
M-109A3 Shop Van at DRMO. Photo: Courtesy of Mark J. Blair.
Interior of M109A3 Shop Van. Photo: Government Liquidation.com
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