Where Military Trailers go to die :(

[JohnnyC]

thought you'll enjoy these pictures

Okinawa 1949

 

[titanpat57]

All those poor, deserving wanna be trailer owners....

Deprived...how depressing....

 

[toy4xfun]

All those poor, deserving wanna be trailer owners....

Deprived...how depressing....

just rub it in why don't ya.
now it is time for me to

 

[Walking Eagle]

probably melted down and made into FJ40's

 

[JohnnyC]

probably melted down and made into FJ40's

okinawa japan...

is that why we like them?

 

[Living in the Past]

I guess it was only fair that the army destroyed all these old trailers. Bantam designed the jeep but the army decided Willys Overland got to build it. All Bantam got out of it was a contract to build trailers during WWII. After the war and the company switched to selling them to the public it just wouldn't have been right to have the army flood the market with a bunch of used ones. Just seems a shame when a few years later they would have been needed in that part of the world again.

 

[sirenmoses]

those pix couldve supplied every trailer-dreamin Mudder.

:sob:

but them weren't the days of "Reduce, Re-use, Re-cycle": used oil got poured on driveways back then, "to keep the dust down".

still...

 

[Living in the Past]

but them weren't the days of "Reduce, Re-use, Re-cycle": used oil got poured on driveways back then, "to keep the dust down".

still...

I remember the tanker trucks with a line of spray nozzles across the back. Kept county roads dust down and ally's weeds at bay. You can sure tell they don't do that anymore.

 

[Walking Eagle]

I was only half kidding about them being made into cruisers, I do believe alot of that they did recycle into steel for other stuff. Or maybe I'm just remembering the jokes about them sending our scrapnal back to us in cars.

 

[JohnnyC]

Japan was scrap central from WWII till the 1980's ...they had a huge dependency on importing raw materials.

 

[Corprin]

probably melted down and made into FJ40's

..or they just made these...

http://www.freecandyvan.com/corprin/Jeep/Type-73/img_2235.jpg

 

[Brian in Oregon]

A lot of them got refurbed and reused in the Korean War.

 

[greentruck]

A lot of them got refurbed and reused in the Korean War.

Makes sense. They're neatly stacked in rows so there's clearance to walk through. Some poor clerk is going to be walking in the hot sun every so often for a few years counting and noting serial numbers, then...

Probably was a pile of junk around somewhere, but it's hard to say that's the fate of these, at least as a next stop. They look like they are near a port, so could as easily be moved as scrap or freight.

 

[JohnnyC]

I cant quite tell...does anybody see an Ak-10 in any of these pictures?

Jeeps ! Jeeps ! what a waste !