[MV] GPW

steve shaw (gyrene37@webtv.net)
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 22:33:50 -0500 (EST)

Hello to all:
I've been following with great interest the GPW discussion and certainly
appreciate the expertise of everyone involved. I was reading a few WWII
copies of "Leatherneck" magazine from 1943 and found three
advertisements by Willys-Overland concerning the Jeep. They were full
page, inside back cover, color ads with the top half a reprint of a
drawing by "famous war artist" Mr. James Sessions. the text then tells
the story of the picture - Engineers Bridge new Guinea River Under Fire
- Marines on Guadacanal, etc. At the end there are two statements that
I thought that might be of interest.

1. "It was Willys-Overland's fine staff of engineers who, in close
cooperation with Army Service forces, designed and perfected the Jeep.
This unit of America's modern motorized army is procured and maintained
by the Ordanance Department for our fighting forces - throughout the
world. Willys-Overland Motors, Inc."

2. "the fighting heart of every Jeep in the world-and the source of its
amazing power, speed, flexibility, dependability and fuel economy - is
the Jeep "Go-Devil" Engine, which was designed and perfected by
Willys-Overland, "Builders of the mighty Jeep"."

Steve Shaw
'51 M-37 Ser. #80007749
'51 M-37 Ser. #80011547

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