Jeep built the Willys Quad, and Ford created the GP Pygmy as their prototype. All three manufacturers delivered 70 vehicles to the Army in the Summer of 1940 for testing.

It wasn’t until 1996, more than five decades after its successful efforts during WWII, that information regarding the existence of a secretive Ghost Army was made known to the public.

RACINE -- The steering wheel juts into your gut. Your legs are bent at a greater than 90-degree angle. And you have to climb in and out of the Jeep, over a side rail. The Army-style Jeep you've ...

1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Lee Holland, a Fort Lee employee, leans on the hood of a first production Jeep garaged in The Motor Pool, a museum and personal tribute to the wheeled ...

LINCOLN, Neb. – Staff Sgt. Junior James Spurrier was born in Castlewood, Virginia, Dec. 14, 1922, as James Ira Spurrier Jr. to Ira and Ruby Spurrier. When Spurrier enlisted into the Army on Sept ...

Pulitzer prize winner WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle, who worked for the Scripps Howard newspaper, once accurately described the Willys MB Jeep by saying, "It did everything.It went everywhere.