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Lend-lease U.S. jeeps
shreed
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 08:37 AM UTC
Hello ,did the jeeps that U.S. sent to Soviets under the lend-lease have any stars, etc . that were put on before shipped. Thanks for help.
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 09:05 AM UTC

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Hello ,did the jeeps that U.S. sent to Soviets under the lend-lease have any stars, etc . that were put on before shipped. Thanks for help.


Hey Steve,
I don't think they had stars but they did have U.S. War Department registration numbers.
This site will help:

http://www.o5m6.de/index.html

http://www.o5m6.de/bantam.html

http://www.o5m6.de/willys_mb.html

http://www.o5m6.de/willys_ma.html

http://www.o5m6.de/ford_gpa.html

Cheers

jjumbo
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 09:10 AM UTC
Hi Steve if the jeeps the US sent over during the lend-lease to Russia did have any US markings then i'd imagine the Russians would have just painted over them
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 09:37 AM UTC

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Hi Steve if the jeeps the US sent over during the lend-lease to Russia did have any US markings then i'd imagine the Russians would have just painted over them


Well they didn't paint over the US markings and shipping Stencils on the Shermans so I doubt they would bother doing so with jeeps
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 11:22 AM UTC
Thanks for the help.
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 11:39 AM UTC
All manner of vehicles were shipped w/registration and shipping stencils but not stars. US units would apply stars were unit level. All lend lease equipment in transit I've seen is w/o markings. An exception would be aircraft. I've seen pics of P-39 Airacobras and P-63 Kingcobras leaving the US factories with Soviet stars painted on them.
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 01:13 PM UTC
None of the photos of Russian Shermans that have seen in the book "Commanding the Red Army's Shermans" have US Markings. I doubt that any equipment used by the Soviets would have had US/British markings in service.

John
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 03:16 PM UTC

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None of the photos of Russian Shermans that have seen in the book "Commanding the Red Army's Shermans" have US Markings. I doubt that any equipment used by the Soviets would have had US/British markings in service.

John


I have seen B/W photos of Lend Lease M3 Lees, M3 Stuarts in combat with U.S.A. WD numbers in pale blue, yellow or white still visible on the www.
Will look for some and will post if possible.
Cheers

jjumbo
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 05:04 PM UTC
On a related note, all jeeps originally came from the factory with blue drab registration numbers. Later, in about mid '43, white was used at the factory. Some units repainted the blue drab to white once they were issued as well.
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Posted: Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 07:29 PM UTC
Hey guys,
Here's a page with a few photos of Eastern Front M3's with U.S.A. WD numbers visible:

http://beute.narod.ru/Beutepanzer/us/M3_Lee_grant/Su/m3-soviet.htm

Cheers

jjumbo
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Posted: Monday, March 02, 2009 - 02:35 PM UTC
I should have limited my comment to stars.

John
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