They were at the Monkey-wrench stage in WW2
Steve
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From: dvsww2 [mailto:dvsww2@cyberhighway.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 7:53 PM
To: Antoine; David; Muttguru@aol.com
Cc: mil-veh@skylee.com
Subject: Re: [MV] Vehicle Security
Antoine and friends.. I just had a good visit with 517th AB Vet and they
were quite notarious for liberating Jeeps for their use. At first, the
infantry would take the rotors out of the distributers and the paratroopers
came up with a bunch of rotors, then the steering wheel idea hit. Well
this guy and a couple of his buddies ran across a jeep with no steering
wheel and they found the "leg" bellied up to the bar with his steering
wheel. They couldn't get the wheel, but one of the guys had a pair of vise
grips and they proceeded to liberate the jeep driving it with visegrips.
After a couple of near crashes they got their prize back to camp. He said
the closest they got was they stole a Third Divison Col's jeep and he
tracked it down to their motor pool, but no one saw who drove the jeep in,
and they just took the jeep back. Please excuse the story Arthur, but this
probably explains the buggered up threads on steering shafts, and why they
went to keys. They they hot wired them.
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> From: Antoine <antoine@usa.net>
> To: David <davejodi@epix.net>; Muttguru@aol.com
> Cc: mil-veh@skylee.com
> Subject: Re: [MV] Vehicle Security
> Date: Monday, September 27, 1999 9:47 PM
>
> During WWII, American troops in Naples (Italy) were known to
> remove the steering wheels from their parked Jeeps... Then there
> were pictures (taken in France I think, not sure..) of a side
> door-strap eyelet bolted to the middle of the Jeep dash, so that
> one could padlock the gear lever in reverse...
> But when there is a will, there's a way...
> After all, jeeps originally came out with an H700 iginition key,
> but Willys & Ford soon gave up on that (end of 1942)...
> Actually, I got a NOS replacement switch (Ford, I think) which
> had BOTH the tumbler with H700 Keys AND the paddle switch
> un-keyed tumbler in the box.
> Antoine
>
> 1943 Willys MB & '44 MBT
> 1942 Harley-Davidson WLA
> 1942 Harley-Davidson XA (two)
> MVPA Member #14803 - Member MVCG (France)
> http://www.freehomepages.com/antoine
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David <davejodi@epix.net>
> To: <Muttguru@aol.com>
> Cc: <mil-veh@skylee.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 6:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Vehicle Security
>
>
> SNIP >
> > One marine was quoted during the Gulf War "As long as the Army
> keeps
> > parking trucks, the Marines will never run out of them"
> >
> >
> > Dave
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