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05/30/2020 at 02:18 • Filed to: Dodge, M37 dodge, military vehicles
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I hunt for pictures of my type of Dodge truck, the M-37 (G741). Korean War pics are the hardest to find since the truck was new in 1951 and they used mostly old WW2 Dodge WCs. My luck today was Vietnam trucks, they used them through that war. I also watch personal movie footage and grab stills. A lot of the vets personal sites were made a long time ago and are not the best, so that makes it harder. I have learned quite a bit about both wars hunting through the archives.
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shop-teacher
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
05/30/2020 at 06:32 |
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Those are some great pics!
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
05/30/2020 at 07:26 |
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Have you found any yet that you KNOW are your truck? (Do you have it’s registry number and such?)
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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
05/30/2020 at 12:21 |
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No there is a point where the government purges records, we know when Dodge made them but we don’t know where they were deployed. If you have very unique original bumper marking you might be able to get a clue. I know my bumpers aren’t original. I do somehow know the last place my truck was in service, it was on a base in Indiana. My truck was actually a command truck with a couple radios and antennas, it’s called an M42, the ambulance was an M43, there are variations like Air Force crash truck, line trucks etc.. It went on to be in the Army Corps of Engineers after and then MA federal fire got it. Sort of proves the toughness of these things! The guy I bought it from was a fireman and bought it from work and did a bunch of work before he sold it, but he did find some record that must have gone through the federal system with it saying it was in the Army in Indiana.
Organization:1ST BATTALION, 151ST INFANTRY REGIMENT
Location:JASPER, IN
Nomenclature: TRUCK CARGO 3/4T
Model: M37
NSN: 2320008358322
Registration Number:2402331
Year of Mfg:1952
Info from Nov 1974
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> shop-teacher
05/30/2020 at 12:27 |
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It is fascinating to look through all the pictures, there is so much I didn’t know. A lot of them have notes from the people about whatever is going on. The pic with the girls had a note saying he wished the girls would leave the guys alone because if you had an STD or got into drugs they wouldn’t fly you back to the US until you were rehabilitated. They didn’t want bad press. The other thing that amazed me was the amount of construction we did in Nam, they built highways and all kinds of stuff, thousands of construction workers were housed in barracks they built and some of the pictures of the projects look like they are huge.
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
05/30/2020 at 12:32 |
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Ah cool, gotcha! :)