American servicemen learning the VW valve adjustment ritual on a captured Kübelwagen, 1944

Caption     American servicemen learning the VW valve adjustment ritual on a captured Kübelwagen, 1944 ww2dbase
Photographer    Unknown
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Photo Size 762 x 531 pixels
Added By David Stubblebine
Licensing  This anonymous work originating in the European Union is in the public domain. Its copyright expired 70 years after the work was made available to the public.

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1. mr.Anonymous says:
6 Oct 2016 08:16:24 AM

this has very little and poor informatio
2. Anonymous says:
7 Nov 2023 05:58:22 AM

Sir, I have just stumbled-upon this image and find the accompanying caption (like Mr Anonymous) a little bemusing; of course I cannot be sure but the idea of US troops troubling themselves over a foreign automobile seems odd (especially as they are supposed to be being 'instructed' in the 'dark-art' regarding valve-adjustment) - I would suspect no-one would be available to do such a teaching-session.
Also - the head-dress shown lends itself more to Italian or German troop (they look like forage-caps) - not US.
Thanks as always for a superb collection of fascinating images
3. Commenter identity confirmed David Stubblebine says:
7 Nov 2023 11:00:42 AM

Anonymous (above):
I admit that I took a bit of whimsical license with my original caption for this, having been taught this ritual myself in the 1960s by my brother. The maintenance seen in the photo more likely has to do with removing sand than any kind of fine-tuning such as valve adjustments. I agree with you that the caps look more Italian than American or German and the landscape looks more African than European, both of which makes the 1944 date a little suspect. It was captioned and dated as it was because this image appears in the US Army maintenance manual for the Kübelwagen that was issued in Jun 1944. The image itself is almost certainly from a few years before that but “US Army in 1944” is the best information available to me.

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