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County1006 — It's a Dodge, Jim - but not as we know it?
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Published: 2018-06-12 19:54:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 304; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 6
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Taken at Greenway on June 6, 2018.My thanks to thesketchydude13, artlovr59 and paws4thot for their contributions! See below.......
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Well that's cheered me up no end!
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Long live the allied forces!
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"From the halls of Montezuma....."
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My grandpa's father was a radio technician for the Navy during WW2 and my grandmother's uncle was at D-Day.
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Fantastic! My late father-in-law helped build the Mulberry Harbours.
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I think we used those after D-Day.
Also, one of my O.C.s is a WW2 vet. An interesting one too. Even did some research and listed the battles he was in.
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Yes but they were fundamental for resupplying the beachhead. I must do another OC too.
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"The Black Bear sir?"
"The Black Bear."
{Skirl of pipes as the Lovat Scouts advance over Pegasus Bridge}
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Yes for sure, or Bill Millin piping the lads ashore at Normandy......
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I can't remember all the marches Lovat asks for off-hand, but Millin only ever plays the Black Bear (It's a good march but some people are bound to know enough about pipe music to know he's only playing one specific tune).
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The Black Bear is a good march for sure.
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I'd agree with thesketchydude13 that it's a Dodge, but I think it's a half-ton rather than a threequarter-ton version.
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It's the Command Car variant--the Weapons Carrier, Ambulance, and Command Car all share the same Dodge running chassis
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It isn't the Willy's Jeep as such as it has different styling on it which makes me think that the basis is the Jeep but this is perhaps a licence built version or it was the replacement. I don't know who it is by though Andy, sorry.
Looks chunky though and that grill wouldn't look out of place on a small lorry of some description!
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Apparently it's a Dodge Ben! It does look chunky!
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Wow but it doesn't surprise me to hear it is a Dodge. Cracking example as it looks in spot on nick. What age is it?
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Ah right...Then I wonder when the Willy's jeep was produced because there looks to be similarities to me and you cannot help but assume a little use of someone else's ideas happened.
Even if that is not the case it is a great looking vehicle...and I do like that grill
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I have done a bit of digging on the internet Ben and I get the impression that the Dodge and the Willys jeep were contemporaries, with the Dodge being a light truck and the Willys a 'light utility' vehicle. The phrase 'Command Reconnaissance' seems to have been applied to both unless I have misread the descriptions.
Yes the grill is very cool!
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Also BritishGypsum4 - When I was researching variants, I discovered that the quarter and half ton Dodges were called "Jeeps" before Willys Overland built their first prototype.
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Oh OK that's interesting......
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