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Santa in a Jeep - 1941 at Camp Lee, Virginia, Quartermaster Replacement Center
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| December 1941
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Posted on 12/24/2012 6:20:25 PM PST by DogByte6RER
1941: Santa in a Jeep
“The panzer “Santa”, with well-filled sack of radios, books, cookies, and other gifts dear to soldiers hearts, glides up to the door of the barracks in Camp Lee’s Quartermaster Corps and it isn’t hampered by lack of snow in Virginia. Camp Lee, Virginia, Quartermaster Replacement Center”
- US Army Center of Military History
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: 1941; army; badass; camplee; christmas; fatherchristmas; jeep; oldskool; santaclaus; unitedstatesarmy; virginia; worldwar2
Merry Christmas to all of our Armed Forces serving world wide, and to all of our Veterans too.
To: All
A Merry Christmas to all FReepers and to all a good night!
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:21:34 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
I'll sandwich that moment with this:
Chuck and Al
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:24:12 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: DogByte6RER
That looks like a Bantam jeep or possibly a very early MB.
Great pics.
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:31:13 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:33:40 PM PST
by
Howie
To: headstamp 2
Close! Its a Willys MA - the Willys prototype to the MB. Nice pics!
CS
To: crusadersoldier
Right on for the model. Wouldn’t you love to have one.
I have 1948, couldn’t afford anthing earlier.
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:46:04 PM PST
by
TaMoDee
( Lassez les bons temps rouler dans les 2012! Allez Pack!)
To: crusadersoldier
:Close! Its a Willys MA - the Willys prototype to the MB. Nice pics!
CS”
Hey thanks!
Have to brush up on my jeep history.
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:46:21 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: crusadersoldier
Right on for the model. Wouldn’t you love to have one.
I have 1948, couldn’t afford anything earlier.
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posted on
12/24/2012 6:46:55 PM PST
by
TaMoDee
( Lassez les bons temps rouler dans les 2012! Allez Pack!)
To: TaMoDee
I have a very early 1941 Willys MB and an early Ford GPW (Ford built them as well). Lots of fun. Would love to have a Willys MA ... but those are so rare they are pushing 80k+! Love the early CJ’s as well.
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
12/24/2012 7:04:43 PM PST
by
Nachum
(The List is off the Google blacklist- www.nachumlist.com)
To: DogByte6RER
Camp Lee is now Fort Lee; it’s near Petersburg VA, and still a busy Army installation.
Merry Christmas to all of you and your families, and a special greeting to all our military!
To: Nachum
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posted on
12/24/2012 7:30:42 PM PST
by
thoolou
("I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." - David Bradley, inventor of Ctrl-Alt-Del)
To: sassy steel magnolia
"Camp Lee is now Fort Lee; it’s near Petersburg VA, and still a busy Army installation"
and I believe I stayed in those exact same barracks in 1980 !
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posted on
12/24/2012 8:46:58 PM PST
by
45semi
(Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from existential evil.-Packwoods Law)
To: Nachum
That was great Nach, thanks!
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posted on
12/24/2012 10:43:10 PM PST
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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