Mass held on the battlefield by a Catholic priest for American soldiers from the 80th "Blue Ridge" Division. Oftentimes a flat Jeep hood served as a chaplain's altar.
Image courtesy of Photos Normandie - Patrick Peccatte & Michel Le Querrac - scanned images from the U.S. National Archives. Part of the Creative Commons.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
General Eisenhower in a Jeep 4x4
Dwight Eisenhower smiling in his Willys MB Jeep 4x4.General Bradley is in the back seat chuckling about something.
Image courtesy of PhotosNormandie and National Archives and Administration Records (NARA).
Photo taken on July 4, 1944 in an apple orchard located in Haunville, France.
Image courtesy of PhotosNormandie and National Archives and Administration Records (NARA).
Photo taken on July 4, 1944 in an apple orchard located in Haunville, France.
Jeep Hit by Tornado
Wouldn't have wanted to be storm chasing in this Jeep 4x4. This unfortunate Jeep vehicle was caught up in a powerful tornado and smashed so it's hardly recognizable as a car.
Eighty people died from this tornado. You can find out more about this deadly twister here: www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/udall/udall.php
Interesting comparison to a new Jeep Wrangler (JK) that was picked up and tossed 100 feet by a tornado: www.jkowners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59514
I cleaned up the background a bit - it was showing some sort of water damage.
This Creative Commons image is part of Department of Agriculture - Weather Bureau Collection. Found in the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. NARA Identifier: 283888
research.archives.gov/description/283888
Eighty people died from this tornado. You can find out more about this deadly twister here: www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/udall/udall.php
Interesting comparison to a new Jeep Wrangler (JK) that was picked up and tossed 100 feet by a tornado: www.jkowners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59514
I cleaned up the background a bit - it was showing some sort of water damage.
This Creative Commons image is part of Department of Agriculture - Weather Bureau Collection. Found in the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. NARA Identifier: 283888
research.archives.gov/description/283888
Jeep - Atomic bomb testing
Recently declassified documents of film crews and their images provided this gem. A Jeep 4x4 equipped with movie camera is part of the filmmakers' team that captured an atomic explosion at a test site in the Nevada desert in 1957.
You can see the shock wave lifting up the dust from the desert as it passes the film crew.
Have to imagine that a bunch of these guys were hit in later years by cancer. It's speculated that John Wayne died of cancer from fallout in the Nevada desert from these same nuclear tests.
Some conspiracy folks will say this is a staged event shot in Hollywood - looks pretty real to me.
You can see the shock wave lifting up the dust from the desert as it passes the film crew.
Have to imagine that a bunch of these guys were hit in later years by cancer. It's speculated that John Wayne died of cancer from fallout in the Nevada desert from these same nuclear tests.
Some conspiracy folks will say this is a staged event shot in Hollywood - looks pretty real to me.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Korean Hero by his M38 Jeep
Captain J.W. Finley supports himself between two M38 Jeep vehicles after suffering severe neck and facial shrapnel wounds from an exploding Chinese grenade.
Captain Finley of Hazelhurst, Ga., was assigned to Company F, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He resolutely refused to leave his duty until he finished directing first aid treatment and evacuation of wounded men of his company. A hero to be sure - Captain Finley retired a Colonel in the U.S. Army and served three tours in Korea, a tour in Vietnam, as well as duty in Japan, Turkey and Germany.
Image taken on February 22, 1951.
Image courtesy of the U.S. Army Korea Media Center at: imcom.korea.army.mil
This image is part of the Creative Commons and is cleared for public release. This image is generally considered in the public domain. Not for commercial use.
SC359740 - KOREAN CONFLICT
Captain Finley of Hazelhurst, Ga., was assigned to Company F, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He resolutely refused to leave his duty until he finished directing first aid treatment and evacuation of wounded men of his company. A hero to be sure - Captain Finley retired a Colonel in the U.S. Army and served three tours in Korea, a tour in Vietnam, as well as duty in Japan, Turkey and Germany.
Image taken on February 22, 1951.
Image courtesy of the U.S. Army Korea Media Center at: imcom.korea.army.mil
This image is part of the Creative Commons and is cleared for public release. This image is generally considered in the public domain. Not for commercial use.
SC359740 - KOREAN CONFLICT
Jeep M38 used as Altar in Mass
Jeep M38 being used by Chaplain Dennis Murphy as an altar for the elements during mass celebration in Japan during the Korean conflict. The flat Jeep bonnet served as the perfect platform for the sacred elements (today's HMMWV, aka Humvee, is too high and sloping to use the hood). The soldiers were from the 65th AAA Batallion and were worshiping at Bolo Point, Okinawa. Photo taken July 19, 1951.
Photo courtesy Nelse Einwaechter of the U.S. Army.
Photo courtesy Nelse Einwaechter of the U.S. Army.
Generals in a Jeep
General Douglas MacArthur was as big as any rock star in his olive drab five-star uniform. He felt he was destined by God to hold his military position.
General MacArthur led the United Nations Command in the Korean War from 1950 to 1951. Eight days after this image was taken, MacArthur was removed from this command by President Harry S. Truman. MacArthur had voiced to the press his critical opinion of President Truman's limited-war strategy.
MacArthur served in the military for 52 years.
From left to right in the M38: Lt. Gen. Matthew Ridgeway; Maj. Gen. Doyle Hickey; and Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Commander in Chief of U.N. Forces in Korea. The specially modified Jeep 4x4 has a bar allowing General MacArthur to stand as he inspected the troops at the command post in Yang Yang, Korea.
The post was roughly 15 miles north of the 38th parallel, April 3, 1951.
Courtesy of Grigg, U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration.
NARA FILE #: 111-SC-365348.
WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1376
Creative Commons image: cleared for public release. This image is generally considered in the public domain. Not for commercial use.
Courtesy of U.S. Army Korea - Installation Management Command.
General MacArthur led the United Nations Command in the Korean War from 1950 to 1951. Eight days after this image was taken, MacArthur was removed from this command by President Harry S. Truman. MacArthur had voiced to the press his critical opinion of President Truman's limited-war strategy.
MacArthur served in the military for 52 years.
From left to right in the M38: Lt. Gen. Matthew Ridgeway; Maj. Gen. Doyle Hickey; and Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Commander in Chief of U.N. Forces in Korea. The specially modified Jeep 4x4 has a bar allowing General MacArthur to stand as he inspected the troops at the command post in Yang Yang, Korea.
The post was roughly 15 miles north of the 38th parallel, April 3, 1951.
Courtesy of Grigg, U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration.
NARA FILE #: 111-SC-365348.
WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1376
Creative Commons image: cleared for public release. This image is generally considered in the public domain. Not for commercial use.
Courtesy of U.S. Army Korea - Installation Management Command.
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