Willys MB Jeep with Trailer Firefighter

Willys MB Jeep with Trailer FirefighterIn July 1941, Willys Overland carried off the contract responding to a strict specification sheet concerning a small multi purpose cross country vehicle, easy to drive, to upkeep and to repair. Assembling was straightforward, using just the necessary parts. The jeep was born: a great looking perennial vehicle.

Hurricane Mk II c in 1/48 scale

46 built and conversions from earlier versions

due to the fact that the bomber's codes were the same as his father's initials

The undisputed load-lugging champion of the Army and a true workhorse of Britain’s armed forces

the project evolved and in 1942

adopted a reverse configuration of the armaments which nevertheless remain the same

Marine Corps

It has been in service with the US Air Force since 1977

Navy under the designation RE

or carried as an underslung load beneath the larger British helicopter types

I was equipped with a fixed forward firing

as one pilot later put it