Brightly painted Willys MB Jeep (Larry Roth and Wallace Marquardt) leading B-24J aircraft at an unknown USAAF Air Field, 1940s; note the special orange paint within National Insignia on hood, which changed colors when exposed to nerve agents

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Caption     Brightly painted Willys MB Jeep (Larry Roth and Wallace Marquardt) leading B-24J aircraft at an unknown USAAF Air Field, 1940s; note the special orange paint within National Insignia on hood, which changed colors when exposed to nerve agents ww2dbase
Date  1945
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Signal Corps
Identification Code   A 79719
 
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Added By David Stubblebine
Photo Size 2,986 x 3,778 pixels



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