"Autobiography of a Jeep" - a 1943 9-minute film about the Jeep as used in WWII, told by a Jeep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTKe2uyWjI4
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"Autobiography of a Jeep" - a 1943 9-minute film about the Jeep as used in WWII, told by a Jeep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTKe2uyWjI4
That's stunning. At 1.38 a procession of LCM's...over bridges, on roads, loaded on purpose built trailers, towed by semi's, destined mainly for the Pacific.
That is RAW MATERIALS. MINING. INFRASTRUCTURE. CAPITAL INVESTMENT. PRODUCTION LINES. MANUFACTURING, even the WAR FINISH plaques.
Sure the video subject is our Jeep, a tangible, fractional symbol of all that made it possible.
Only supplied most of the free world's Allies, that's all...