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Solved : NEH 906: 'Streamline Jeep' by men of 478th Air Service Squadron in WW2
« on: December 24, 2010, 04:36:05 AM »
What's this called, who built it on what base, when - all for 1 point!
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Re: NEH 906
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2010, 04:38:19 AM »
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Re: NEH 906
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2011, 08:06:42 AM »
On its way up...
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Re: NEH 906
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2011, 10:14:26 AM »
Details on this are very sparse, but it appeared in a brief article in Popular Mechanics magazine of December 1945. Just called a "streamlined Jeep", it was made in their spare time by men of the 478th Air Service Squadron when based in the Philippines at the end of WW2. It was made from an accident-damaged Jeep, with body parts adapted from two wrecked aircraft.

Here's the article.
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Re: NEH 906
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2011, 10:30:34 AM »
That's it, yes.
I like that for ingenuity: a body made from a crashed aircraft engine cowling!  I bet that's unique...
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Re: Solved : NEH 906: 'Streamline Jeep' by men of 478th Air Service Squadron in WW2
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2011, 12:05:46 PM »
Airplane bits? Unique? No. Crashed airplane bits. Could be...
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Re: Solved : NEH 906: 'Streamline Jeep' by men of 478th Air Service Squadron in WW2
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2011, 12:07:43 PM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on January 10, 2011, 12:05:46 PM
Airplane bits? Unique? No. Crashed airplane bits. Could be...
But a crashed airplane cowling definitely is :)

(PS: Crashed airplane bits have been used, I believe there is a puzzle of it somewhere here on autopuzzle even)
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