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1944 Photo of Carrying Jeep on eBay

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UPDATE: Below is a press photo related to the article at the bottom.

“1944 Press Photo Y-Force Operations Staff carrying parts of an disassembled jeep
This is an original press photo. Y-Force Operation Staff, China. American lend-lease jeep, disassembled on one side of a Chinese mountain, are brought over mountain trails to the Burma Road for assembly. Standing beside the road is Capt. Lui An, Chinese Foreign Affairs Bureau, attached to one of the units of the American Y-Force Operations Staff as an interpreter. Major Shing Chin of the 11th Army Group, Chinese Expeditionary Force, walks behind jeep body. The jeep on being reassembled after its parts had been carried on the backs of soldier to the point of assembly on the Burma Road, was delivered to Lieut. Gen. Soong Hei-Lien, Commanding General of the Chinese 11th Army Group, to be used in testing roads over which captured Japanese vehicles were to be driven. Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches. Photo is dated 11-12-1944.”

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Related Article published in 2011:

I ran across this article online here.

Chinese Take the Bull (Jeep) By The Horns

Y-FORCE OPERATIONS HEADQUARTERS – While it is true the Chinese are rightfully renowned as philosophers, don’t think for a second that they can’t take the proverbial bull by the horns when the necessity arises.
This fact was sharply emphasized a wile back when a strong Japanese force entrenched on Sungshan Mountain dominated a height that made it look like a hopeless task for the Chinese to get an American Lend-Lease jeep from one side of the mountain to the other.
The Chinese have a proverb that says if you can’t conveniently move a mountain, the logical thing to do is go around it. Remembering this and taking action upon it, the problem was quickly solved.
Although they had never seen a jeep before, Chinese soldiers and civilian mechanics, instructed by American officers, disassembled the vehicle, which had been flown into China over The Hump on an Air Transport Command plane. The parts were shouldered by 74 coolies, who set out over the mountain trails, headed for a point 15 miles away by their circuitous route.
Arrived at this point on the Burma Road, out of range of the Jap guns on the mountain, the Chinese mechanics reassembled the jeep and turned it over to Lt. Gen. Soon Hsi-Lien of the Chinese 11th Group Army, who needed it to test out the road near the front over which it was planned to run back a number of motor vehicles captured from the Japs to a temporary repair dump.
Shortly after the jeep was in operation, the Chinese, aided by the Y-Force Operations Staff, blew the top off the mountain with 6,000 pounds of TNT, along with the entrenched Japs on its summit.
The jeep is now traveling along this section of the Burma Road without interference.

 

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