UPDATE: This article was originally published April 9, 2015:
On July 19, 1945, the Toledo Blade published an extensive story about the unveiling of the CJ-2A to reporters. The paper is also full of interesting stories, such as the sinking of the Ticonderoga, the identification of a returning GI with amnesia that turned out to be a Nazi Agent, and the jailing of a Walnut Grove, California, woman who threatened a returned Japanese American soldier who was a POW in Germany.
A small part of the CJ-2A story was published on page 1
The majority of the story was on the front page of section 2.
I find it really interesting how all the newspaper articles about Jeep Day show old pictures of AgriJeeps and not the new CJ2As that were being introduced…
Bill
That’s a good point. I’m so used to seeing the agrijeep photos above in connection with the launch that I never considered that issue.
However, I do think at least one of the photos above is of a CJ-2A. The one of Sorenson and Soong doesn’t show much of the jeep, but a companion press photo http://www.ewillys.com/2014/11/08/1945-photo-of-sorenson-and-soong-on-ebay/ shows them in a CJ-2A. The photo is dated 07/18/2015 and is the earliest CJ-2A photo I have.
Dave,
You are correct that shot or mr soong is in an actual 2a. There was another picture in the Detroit times that had sorenson running a saw on the back of a 2a. There were also a few pics of the 2a assembly line in the New York Times. The rest were all cj2s.
Bill