Yesterday I featured an ad that related a story about jeeps lashed to the decks of Submarines.
This article was published in the February 10, 1944 issue of the Eugene Register Guard:
I found this article on page 5 of the January 10, 1944, edition of the Southeast Missourian Newspaper:
And from page 2 of the February 10, 1944, issue of the Spokane Daily Chronicle:
And, on a note of trivia, I found this gem at an archived site:
In World War II, Burton Baskin of Baskin Robbins fame, was a quartermaster who began his ice cream career by trading a jeep for an ice cream freezer
Now, I don’t know if that’s true as I couldn’t verify it anywhere else, but a fun fact if true.
Maybe the Navy should have tested how many feet below sea level a jeep could go before all its seals would pop. Pop in, that is.
This type of story is also referred to in this LIFE Magazine issue:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=KU8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=true
Excellent. Thanks!