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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: May 19, 2016
Caption: Crated Jeep -- exhibit at the Rosie the Riveter Visitor Education Center
Additional Description: "Over the course of the war, the Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (next door) was a high-volume factory, producing nearly 50,000 jeeps for the military. Workers received parts by rail, assembled the jeeps, test-drove the finished vehicles, and the partly disassembled them so they could be packed in crates and shipped to army units around the world.
The tough, all-terrain, multipurpose jeep proved to be invaluable to the war effort and was used by every branch of the U.S. military. Many historians think "jeep" derived from the military designation GP ("General Purpose"). Or soldiers may have likened the car to "Eugene the Jeep," a magical jungle pet owned by cartoon hero Popeye the Sailor Man. Whatever the source, the name stuck and remains in use today."
Submitted: May 22, 2016, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p352694
File Size: 3.460 Megabytes

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