From: flyn3nvt@adelphia.net
Date: Tue Jan 03 2006 - 13:13:27 PST
Dont know about ww2........but in Vietnam, a lot of the transportation guys would have a can opener hanging from a string off the drivers windshield support arm tab.
Jeffinvt
---- Everette <194cbteng@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I have never seen one -- but you have read I am sure where US Govt. gave
> Coke all the sugar they wanted during WWII and the large number of bottling
> plants that were set up in most all theaters of war, it is sure possible
> that some GI stuck one in his jeep as a "field modification" I have not
> looked but there is a good chance you might find an appropriate opener on
> Ebay - cast metal device held in place by two screws, the ones I remember
> were a silver finish with the work COKE cast in top and highlighted in red.
> Do not take this to say I ever saw one in a jeep, but over in the Arkansas
> deer woods there is one nailed to a tree where we had our deer camp
>
> Everette
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Deck" <ddeck@sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 8:37 PM
> Subject: [MV] Coke bottle openers on jeeps
>
>
> > Does anyone have a WWII period picture of a jeep with
> > a coke bottle opener attached? I'm beginning to think
> > this is the same kind of myth as the $50 jeep in a
> > box.
> > Dennis
> > 1945 MB
> >
> > Dennis Deck
> > 916 835-1707
> >
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