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When I was growing up somehow the house acquired several orange crates of 1940s Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and the like magazines. I remember several rather breathless short articles bragging about the many ways to reuse wartime equipment. There were many naturally on all the civilian uses of Jeeps. I'm sure the thrill of freezing, frying, soaking, bouncing, flipping and other hardships suffered by the troops meant only a few of the imagined roles really panned out.