Hello Deryk,
Surprisingly, I couldn't find anything in U.S. Military Wheeled Vehicles about
them. Navy vehicles tend to be pretty well overlooked; poor step siblings to
Olive drab vehicles. Crismon does have entries on the Letourneau crash recovery
cranes: Tilly.
My guess would be that they would have been maintenance or flight line
vehicles; they'd be far too light for tugs. I don't think the carriers were big
enough to have fire fighting vehicles on the flight deck, but I could be wrong.
Please keeps the list posted on what you find out.
Pete Davis
pandr@cybertours.com
DerykWalker@cs.com wrote:
> I watching the "Bridges at Toko Ri" the other night and noticed two three
> wheeled jeeps being used on board a carrier. Not being a Jeep person, I had
> not seen anything like this before. Can anyone enlighten me as to what they
> were?
>
> Deryk Walker
> 1944 WC-56 Command Car "Baby"
> Mission Viejo, CA
> (Last outpost of the British Empire)
>
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