PEACE JEEP
Uncle Sam’s War Department wasn’t the only agency interested in jeeps during World War II — the Department of Agriculture had its eye on the iconic four-wheel-drive, quarter-tonner as well.
What if, officials wondered, after victory overseas, surplus jeeps could aid farmers in crop production and help meet increased demands for food? The State Department, too, had a stake in this: What if liberated countries around the world could use surplus jeeps to help increase their food production after the war?
In the spring of 1942, the Department of Agriculture procured a
