Military Vehicles: Buying and Owning
WAC in the driver's seat of Willys MB WW II Jeep.
Military vehicles are a key focus of Olive-Drab.com, one of the largest military vehicle resources on the Internet with information, photos, and guides to everything you need to know. If this is your first visit, click for an Overview. Then proceed to the MV Quick Start for a list of the things to do right away. Follow up with Olive-Drab.com's hundreds of pages of information about specific vehicles, government auctions, parts suppliers, and reference materials you will use over and over again.
You can visit the pages of this section (Buying & Owning Military Vehicles) to discover how to locate and purchase your vehicle, what government auctions are all about, and how to connect with the military vehicle community of clubs, organizations, publications, and Internet places. There is also extensive material on painting, wiring, marking as well as licensing, insurance, transportation and other common topics.
The other major military vehicle sections are Military Vehicle Charts where you can look up most historical and current vehicles (jeeps, trucks, helicopters, ambulances, and much more) and the deep sections of Military Vehicle Information where more extensive treatment of specific types of vehicles, historical facts, and much other information resides.
You can find those sections and all their pages at any time with a visit to the Olive-Drab.com Directory. Check the right hand column of the Directory (reproduced at the left on this page) titled "Buying & Owning Military Vehicles" -- its all there, just click on the page you want. The Olive-Drab.com Directory is linked from the top and bottom of every page of the Olive-Drab.com website. Or you can use the Olive-Drab.com Search, which is also linked from top and bottom of every page of this website.
Rare color photo of general view of a port in England during build up for D-Day, 6 June 1944. In foreground, jeeps are being loaded onto LCTs. In background, larger trucks and DUKWs are being loaded onto LSTs.
Recommended Books About Military Vehicles
A number of good books have been published on the general topic of military vehicles, or U.S. vehicles specifically. Here are some recommended titles:
• Military Vehicles
• Standard Catalog of U.S. Military Vehicles
• Modern U.S. Military Vehicles
• TM 9-2800 Standard Military Motor Vehicles
Find More Information on the Web
There are many fine websites that have additional information on this topic, too many to list here and too many to keep up with as they come and go. Use this Google web search form to get an up to date report of what's out there.
For good results, try entering this: jeep military OR army. Then click the Search button.
