The Willys MB and the Ford GPW — both formally called the U.S. Army Truck, 1⁄4-ton, 4×4, Command Reconnaissance, commonly known as a Jeep and sometimes referred to as G503, were highly successful off-road capable, light, military utility vehicles — was built in large numbers from 1941 to 1945 to a standardized design for the Allied forces in World War II.
This is the story of one of those Jeeps…
