From: Jim Gilmore (jgilmore@ptd.net)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 18:59:01 PDT
Skip wrote:
>1. US Navy WWII vehicles were painted grey. Was the grey flat, semi-gloss or
>gloss?
As has been stated, most Gray painted Navy vehicles were repainted by the Navy.
No Navy jeeps were delivered painted Gray. All Navy GPW's were delivered in Lusterless Olive Drab. MB's were delivered in Lusterless Olive Drab and in USMC "Forest Green".
There were some vehicles that were delivered in Gray. One such example is the Ford GTB bomb trucks. One Navy contract was delivered painted "Ocean Gray". Navy Ford station wagons were delivered painted Black.
The first jeeps owned by the Navy and by the Marines were painted Lusterless Olive Drab. These were Ford GP's built on Navy and Marine contracts in 1941.
>2. What color did the Navy paint vehicles in combat areas?
Forest Green, Olive Drab or camouflage.
>3. Did the Marine Corps paint their vehicles Marine Corp Green or Olive
>Drab?
USMC vehicles were painted Forest Green. All GPW's diverted to the Marines were delivered in Lusterless Olive Drab. MB's produced under contract were painted either Lusterless Olive Drab with a fog coat of Forest Green or delivered in Forest Green.
This was a Lusterless (flat) green.
I have color movies of USMC jeeps on Iwo Jima in WW II and many are painted a camouflage scheme. These were not delivered painted as such.
International trucks were standard issue vehicles for the Marines during WW II. During the Korean war the Marines used many GMC CCKW's.
Jim Gilmore
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