Welcome to my blog concerning the 42 Ford GPW (jeep) and assorted items. You can visit my primary website at http://www.42fordgpw.com/. I am an author and researcher of WW2 jeep related information. Several of my books are for sale at http://www.cafepress.com/42fordgpw. If you’ve never been to http://www.cafepress.com/ it is a wonderful way to enter the Internet marketplace.
I hope that this site develops into an interesting substation for discussion about the most remarkable wheeled vehicle of WW2–the jeep as typified by the Ford production model–the GPW.
“A truck light enough to be manhandled over ditches and other obstacles by a squad. The vehicle will have to be capable of carrying a maximum load of 1100 lbs. (antitank gun.)” — November 4, 1937, M.G. George Lynch, Chief of Infantry.
The 4×4 1/4-ton was a long series of events that develped into the jeep. Above we have the quote by the general that seems to be one of the links.
Frankie waiting in the 1942 Ford GPW. The WW2 jeep was a great weapon of war used for many more things then it was originally developed.
