Truck, ¼-ton, 4×4
The American Bantam Car Company of Butler, Pennsylvania, built the first one for the U.S. Army in 1940. Willys-Overland and Ford built about 640,000 to the standardized design during the Second World War.
Many were shipped overseas in wooden crates and put together where they landed. This exhibit opens one of those crates, then shows how the jeep was put together, part by part.
Open the crate Enter