![]() Large numbers of jeeps were provided to U.S. non-combat motor vehicles produced during the war, or almost two-thirds of the 988,000 light 4WD vehicles produced, when counted together with the Dodge WC series. With almost 650,000 units built, the jeep constituted a quarter of the total U.S. had during WWII." It was the world's first mass-produced light four-wheel drive car. The jeep became the primary light-wheeled multi-role vehicle of the United States military and its allies, with President Eisenhower once calling it "one of three decisive weapons the U.S. Army Truck, 1⁄ 4-ton, 4×4, Command Reconnaissance, commonly known as the Willys Jeep, Jeep, or jeep, and sometimes referred to by its supply catalogue designation G503, were highly successful American off-road capable light military utility vehicles, built in large numbers to a single standardized design, for the United States and the Allied forces in World War II from 1941 until 1945. ![]() The Willys MB and the Ford GPW, both formally called the U.S.
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