"It sure wasn't a Packard or a Cadillac, but it got us where it had to get us, and let me tell you, it could go anywhere. We had so many of them out on the roads that the Jerries started stringing wire across major routes at exactly the neck level of a jeep driver, since they knew we always drove 'em with the windscreens folded down. We fixed that problem by having maintenance crews weld an upright angle iron "wire-cutter" to the front bumper."
Corporal John Stinson, 79th Infantry".
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"Major Skorzeny procured a number of captured jeeps for our unit along with some twenty Sherman tanks and thirty two and a half ton trucks. Our mission was to penetrate behind the lines in American uniforms and disrupt the advance. We were very impressed with performance of the jeeps- those of us who survived."
Unterfeldwebel Rolf Schrader, 150th Panzer Brigade
