Note the additional bow across the top of the windshield frame. How was it attached, welded, bolted, or other? How far down the windshield did the bow legs exteend?
The tall skinny guy on the left is my father-in-law. The date on the back of the photo says Sunday April 7, which would make it 1946. He was in a civilian affairs unit attached to the American Red Cross (displaced persons, etc). Not a medic unit.
I don’t see a hint of a star on the hood
It looks like there are sections of tubing welded onto the sides of the window frame. The extra rod looks like it slides down into these tubes. I don’t think it is a bow for the top though. More likely it was a handhold as the three guys are using it for. Maybe the jeep was used by dignitaries standing in it for reviewing troops or somethjing like that. I have seen other jeeps with handholds on the window frame for this purpose.
ADM Nimitz’s jeep w/handhold.
LTG Patton’s jeep w/handhold.
Unidentified jeep w/handhold in jeep dump on Okinawa. (Wish those had come home.)
A lot of those from Oki are probably still serving as Jeepnies in the PI…
A hand hold makes sense. Probably a field mod, you can see that Patons is differant to the one on Nimitz’s jeep. Ed, the one in your pic loks more like that on Nimitz’s jep only thinner metal.
Ed
What’s with the jeep in the background with the front fenders extended to the front bumper and stars on each fender?
Helps keep sloppy mud chunks from being tossed over everyone when spinning the tires in those muddy conditions found after the tracked vehicles and trucks churned it up. IIRC, Patton’s had sonething like it in the European theatre.
My photos of one of Patton’s command Jeep
