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Jeep lashed to Submarine Deck

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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:

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I found this article on page 5 of the January 10, 1944, edition of the Southeast Missourian Newspaper:

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And from page 2 of the February 10, 1944, issue of the Spokane Daily Chronicle:  1944-02-10-jeep-lashed-to-deck

 

 

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.

 

3 Comments on “Jeep lashed to Submarine Deck

  1. SE Pennsylvania Steve

    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.

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