soc.history.war.world-war-ii

I read there's few days ago that USSR's jeeps were in reality jeeps of the
US army. USSR had none build by themselves because it would had mean to
stop (or slowing down) building of the T.4 Tanks because there were not
enough factory units.
But is it true... not sure. But I'm encouraging you to make some
researches on that matter; maybe you could find it on the "World War II
Magazine" or if you read french, it was on the "2e guerre mondiale"
published last months.
Hope to help!
Regards,

Kareen Healey

"Louis C" a écrit dans le message de news:
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>> I'm building a model of a Willys MA, and wish to depict one of the
>> 1,500 sent to the Soviet Union.
>>
>> Has anyone seen a photo of such a vehicle?
>
> http://www.theeasternfront.co.uk/Vehicles/russian/lendleasevehicles.htm
>
> Scroll down.
>
>> Is there a record of what the Red Army referred to the jeep as?
>
> The caption is a straight transliteration of the English into Russian
> script, with an amusing twist.
>
> It reads "Shchilis MB Zheep", because there is no equivalent to "W" in
> Russian and the character that looks most like it is pronounced
> "shch".
>
>
> LC
>