1, Button: Jeep ® conquest of America’s greatest generals
General George Patton (1885 ~ 1945) is a World War II the world’s most famous generals of the United States, one of his combat leg muscles, one tank, the other is a Jeep.
General Patton once said: “and it (referring to the Jeep ®) together, I won in North Africa, break of Sicily, the liberation of Paris, ending the Third Reich. It is the toughest I have ever seen, the most tenacious machinery. It is and tanks, warships different, there is life, in peacetime it will survive. If possible, I would like it forever. ”
Putton to “soldiers died because of the probability of moving ahead is far less than the probability of a passive defense to death” point of view, won the victory in the battle again and again, but also because of his courage in fighting style, coupled with compact Jeep flexible and powerful features of horsepower, making the U.S. military in World War II famous moment on the battlefield.
Eisenhower: Jeep ® is “winning the war of the three weapons” the first
World War II Jeep ® is a cradle of birth, it is like “maverick”, as the shuttle transporting Allied soldiers mud in Belgium, Burma’s jungle, between the Sahara Desert, in every theater, every battlefield, almost all to see its shadow, Jeep ® for the Allies win the war set the illustrious military exploits.
Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower in World War II, said: “Jeep ®, aircraft and landing craft that we win the war of the three weapons.” Jeep ® in these three major weapon in topping the list, the battlefield combat training to the Jeep ® a reinforced steel frame, either plain or Yimapingchuan winding mountain roads, which have come and go, Rulvpingdi, in the dust of history the success of the Jeep ® famous legend of the world, carrying “the mountain king” crown traveled thousands of miles.
3. Other anecdotal
In 1943, in the “Husky” combat operations, U.S. 7th Army Patton scored Sicily, near the Strait of messina a small village, the poor mountain people is being cut off for the oil press livelihood failure impasse . U.S. forces immediately set aside a Jeep ®, a clever soldiers Jeep ® engine gear together in the oil press, the five days will be to squeeze 44 tons of olive oil. In addition, U.S. soldiers will be lifted Jeep ® vehicles in front, with canvas belt will join a front wheel saw, with Jeep ®-powered drive wheel sawing wood.
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