Pacific Theatre of Operations
Dodge Command Car serving with
tank unit of the Dutch forces in
Surinam (Dutch West Indies)
(Picture through Hans Heesakkers).
Charles Flick from Miami, FL sent this picture in of a command car
being pulled out of the mud somewhere in the Philippines.
The above pictures were taken at Clark Field in the Philippines by
members of the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron
Photos courtesy of Jim Teegarden's great website:
Kingston Winget sent in this picture of a command car in Occupied Japan 1946/47.
Crashed B-24 "Gus's Bus" in Fenton, Northern Territory
1944 with command car in background. This photograph was
provided by Ed Crabtree who was a B-24 pilot in the
380 BG, 530th Bomber Squadron, based in Fenton 1944.
More pictures of this B-24 Liberator can be seen
at "The Old CMP Site" which is maintained by
Keith Webb and has information and pictures
of Canadian Military Pattern vehicles and more.
To visit this site click on the Url below:
http://www.oldcmp.net/findit.html
Photos of General Carl A. Spaatz and other dignitaries
awaiting the return of the Enola Gay and her
crew from mission to Hiroshima.
Larry Adler (left), Carole Landis, and Jack Benny pose
in front of a Dodge Command Car during a tour
somewhere in the South Pacific.
[U.S. Army photo]
New Guinea, December 1943 -Australian vehicles lined
up on a muddy road waiting to cross the Song River.
Note the command car on left side of picture.
(Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial.)
John Wayne in front of a B-25 Mitchell and a WC-56 command car.
MOROTAI, HALMAHERA ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. C. 1945.
FIRST TACTICAL AIR FORCE BASE NOTE THE COMMAND CAR IS
SITTING ON A RAMP ON 44 GALLON DRUMS. .
(Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial.)
Two command cars slugging it through the mud - Leyte Province, Philippines
[Photo taken from the book "Bombs Away - The AAF's Photographic History"
Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc. Publishers 1947]
Labuan Island (North Borneo) 1945.
Vehicles of the 2/7 Field Company, Royal Australian
Engineers along the Cantonment road.
(Photo courtesy of Australian War Memorial)
Melbourne, VIC September 15th,1945.
Vehicles destined for the RAAF are lined up with their
Womans Auxiliary Australian Airforce drivers.
(Photo courtesy of Australian War Memorial)
RAAF airmen from No. 76 Kittyhawk Squadron posing with
Dodge WC-56 command car at Momote, Los Negros Island,
Admiralty Islands - 1944
[Photo courtesy of Australian War Memorial]