From: Glen Bedel (GBedel@designforum.com)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 08:24:29 PDT
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glen Bedel [mailto:GBedel@designforum.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:22 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] WWII Navy and Marine Corp vehicle colors
My neighbor also said that the Marines didn't by GM truck, but bought
Internationals. Prior to Pearl harbor, the Internationals with,"Red ..361
straight eight" engines had a standard gloss finish.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Seidts [mailto:jseidts@astory.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:33 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] WWII Navy and Marine Corp vehicle colors
USN WWII Vehicles WERE NOT painted gray, as a rule. From my ownership of a
few, and the pictures of a few originals, most of them were painted the
standard olive drab as used during WWII. As reference, I personally scraped
this paint off of three WWII jeeps, a 1942 Autocar Aircraft wrecker, and a
Ford GTB bomb truck- all were USN vehicles by data plate.
This is not to say that NONE of the vehicles were painted gray, and I
believe that this practice was more widespread towards the end of the war,
but most were delivered in good' ol' OD. One of the MB's I owned was
painted a very attractive sea blue over the olive drab- the color was very
similar to the middle color used in the standard USN three color camouflage
for aircraft. I couldn't tell you how it started out in life, gloss, semi
or otherwise, as it was very faded by the time I got it.
Another point. After WWII, most flight line vehicles were painted very
bright yellow. It made them much easier to see and prevented jets from
taxiing over them. I think this was done also in the latter part of WWII,
as I have a Ford GTB which was sold surplus in 1946 and was painted bright
yellow. The color fades to look like a very flat yellow, almost a greenish
yellow. I theorize that this yellow color was the same as that used to
paint all WWII USN training aircraft, which as a rule were painted yellow
during WWII (this is why you will sometimes hear the Stearman biplane called
the "Yellow Peril"). I have yet to see a restored WWII vehicle painted this
way, and would really like to see one...
Don't know a thing about WWII USMC vehicles- I've never owned one and
haven't seen many up close. Good luck with your research.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Skip Woods" <swoods@samnet.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:32 AM
Subject: [MV] WWII Navy and Marine Corp vehicle colors
> Hi!
> I have some questions about WWII Navy and Marine Corps vehicle colors.
> 1. US Navy WWII vehicles were painted grey. Was the grey flat,
> semi-gloss
or
> gloss?
> 2. What color did the Navy paint vehicles in combat areas?
> 3. Did the Marine Corps paint their vehicles Marine Corp Green or
> Olive Drab? Thanks for any help you can give!
> Skip
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