Bazza,bazza46 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 1:34 pmIt's from a 'National Geographic' magazine,January, 1944, in an article titled 'Brazil's Potent Weapons'. The caption below it states,"Bouncing Jeeps Go Everywhere and Are Favorites Everywhere They Go!'
Students at the School of Motor- Mechanization of the Brazilian Army man this curving row. The school, near Rio de Janiero, gives training courses of from eight weeks to ten months. Graduates then join the mechanized divisions. Much of their heavy equipment comes from the United States.
Bazza
You are right! Brasil received in the Lend Lease Agreement, 1985 jeeps (GPWs and MBs), arriving in middle 1942. The Brazilian Expediconary Force in Italy (One infantry division and rear echalons) received around 700 jeeps from US 5th Army depots, all this jeeps bought to Brasil after the war.
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