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German Officers Examined A Captured Jeep - Then Requested Thousands For Themselves

In nineteen forty five, when United States Army historian Hugh M. Cole interviewed captured Wehrmacht generals and asked which American weapon impressed them most, their answer was not a tank, bomber, or artillery piece. It was the Jeep. This documentary tells the remarkable story of how a small quarter ton reconnaissance vehicle helped decide the outcome of World War Two. From Karl Probst's impossible forty nine day deadline to design the original prototype, to the massive production effort that delivered six hundred forty seven thousand Jeeps by war's end, this is a story of American industrial genius defeating German engineering arrogance. Discover how the Willys MB and Ford GPW outproduced the German Kubelwagen thirteen to one, why Otto Skorzeny desperately needed captured Jeeps for Operation Greif during the Battle of the Bulge, and how British SAS commandos used Jeeps to destroy nearly four hundred aircraft in North Africa. Featuring verified accounts from Ernie Pyle, General Eisenhower, and the soldiers who depended on this legendary vehicle, this full length documentary reveals why the Jeep became the most beloved machine of the Second World War. From the beaches of Normandy to the jungles of Guadalcanal, from Lend Lease shipments to the Soviet Union to the arsenal of democracy that overwhelmed the Axis powers, experience the complete history of the vehicle that German officers examined, admired, and desperately wanted for themselves. Official Museums and Institutions: National WWII Museum - Operation Greif https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war... Congressional Medal of Honor Society - Theodore Roosevelt Jr. https://www.cmohs.org/news-events/med... Imperial War Museums - SAS in World War Two https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-di... National Park Service - Theodore Roosevelt Jr. https://www.nps.gov/people/theodore-r... PBS Ken Burns The War - War Production https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/... Smithsonian Magazine - American Aircraft Production https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-sp... Official Brand and Automotive Sources: Jeep Official History https://www.jeep.com/history/1940s.html National Museum of World War II Aviation - Ford GPW https://www.worldwariiaviation.org/ai... Historical Publications and Archives: Ernie Pyle WWII Museum https://erniepyle.org HistoryNet - The Incredible Jeep https://www.historynet.com/the-incred... Warfare History Network - The Magnificent Jeep https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/art... Gale Blog - Karl K. Probst and the Birth of the Jeep https://blog.gale.com/karl-k-probst-a... Radio Free Europe - Lend Lease to Soviet Union https://www.rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-l... Military Reference Sources: Military Factory - Bantam BRC https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor... Estrella Warbird Museum - Ford GPW Jeep https://www.ewarbirds.org/vehicles/19... Period Publications: TIME Magazine Archive - Bill Mauldin Profile https://time.com/archive/6772309/army...