1/4 Ton Jeep Willys - 1:72 scale model kit

The Willys MB and the Ford GPW, both formally called the U.S. Army Truck, ​1⁄4-ton, 4×4, Command Reconnaissance,[2][3] commonly known as the Willys Jeep, Jeep, or jeep,[4] and sometimes referred to as G503,[nb 3] were highly successful American off-road capable light military utility vehicles built in large numbers to a standardized design for the United States and other Allied forces in World War II from 1941 to 1945.

The jeep became the primary light wheeled transport vehicle of the United States military and its allies, with President Eisenhower once calling it "one of three decisive weapons the U.S. had during WWII."It was the world's first mass-produced four-wheel drive car, manufactured in six-figure numbers; about 650,000 units were built, constituting a quarter of the total U.S. non-combat motor vehicles produced during the war, and almost two-thirds of the 988,000 light 4WD vehicles produced, counted together with the Dodge WC series. Large numbers of jeeps were provided to U.S. allies, including Russia at the time – aside from large amounts of 1​1⁄2- and 2​1⁄2-ton trucks, some 50,000 jeeps and 25,000 ​3⁄4-tons were provided to Russia during WWII – more than Nazi Germany's combined total production of their Volkswagen vehicles, the Kübelwagen and the Schwimmwagen

Author Charles K. Hyde wrote: "In many respects, the jeep became the iconic vehicle of World War II, with an almost mythological reputation of toughness, durability, and versatility." Not only did it become the workhorse of the American military, as it replaced the use of horses and other draft animals (still heavily used in World War I) in every role, from cavalry units to supply trains, but improvised field modifications also made the jeep capable of just about any other function GIs could think of.

Kit Contents:

•  Car model
•  Assembly instructions 
•  U.S.A Willys MB regiment Operation Overlord June 6 France 1944.
•  Adhesive for plastic models with a brush
•  Polish Willys MB 11 4th Heavy Tank Regiment Gdańsk Poland 1945.
•  Italian Willys MB 11 Ponte Milvio squadron Rome 1950
•  German Willys MB captured by Wermacht in the Netherlands 1944.
•  Polish Willys MB 11th Military Gendarmerie Squadron 2nd Polish Corps Battle of Monte Casiono Italy 17 Jan 1944 - 19 May 1944.
•  Greek Willys MB Hellenic Army 1950.
•  Russian Willys MB 4th Red Army Regiment in Germany 1945.
•  British Willys MB Regiment of the Royal Navy 1944.
•  French Willys MB regiment Armee de terre 1945.