From: Maurizio Beretta (pierino@fastwebnet.it)
Date: Tue Mar 22 2005 - 23:23:57 PST
At 04.22 23/03/2005, Jim Gilmore wrote:
>John wrote:
>
> >".......Jim : I'm looking at a August 1945 copy of "Up front " Sixth
> printing Page 114 , could you tell me how you could determine
> that jeep is a Ford or a Willys?......"
>
>Well John.......
>
>I wrote,
>
>........the original drawing was of a Calvary Sergeant "putting down" his
>Ford GP. It was much later redrawn and a MB/GPW substituted for the
>GP..........
>
>
> The drawing you refer to is the later redrawn one.
>
>For a look at the first, original, drawing......see "The American Jeep in
>War and Peace" by Kurt Willinger and Gene Gurney, page 34, upper right
>hand. There you will see the original drawing on the Ford GP done by Bill
>Mauldin.
>
> This was drawn while Mauldin was stationed at Fort Devens and was
> originally published in "Yank" magazine.
>
> The one you refer to was the later redrawn one published in "Stars and
> Stripes" magazine
>
>Jim Gilmore
what's the exact issue of YANK magazine where you could find that drawing?
ciao
maurizio
Maurizio BERETTA
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