CMP trucks used by US Forces

[Keith Webb]

Just came across this interesting image on Facebook of a USN registered C15A in India. Looks like a local wooden body too.
Caption identifies the person in front of the truck: PHM1c Don Kerns

USN C15A.jpg

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

Just came across this interesting image on Facebook of a USN registered C15A in India. Looks like a local wooden body too.
Caption identifies the person in front of the truck: PHM1c Don Kerns

Keith,

I merged it with an earlier thread featuring the same truck. Glad to see this subject brought back to our attention: an wooden-bodied CMP in US Navy service in China - how rare can it get?!?

Caption according to link in first posting reads: "Smith in F15 Polsten Lorry and PHM1c Don Kerns in front of US Navy Hospital, X-Ray unit on sign".

[Keith Webb]

Thanks for doing this Hanno!
Must be a function of age, repeating things! As you can see the original caption mis-identifies the vehicle model.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

Thanks for doing this Hanno!
Must be a function of age, repeating things! As you can see the original caption mis-identifies the vehicle model.

Not sure if you had seen it before, but somehow I recalled seeing that C15A with US Navy markings on MLU (yes, I should get a life ).

It opens a whole new - to me - chapter on WW2; I have just read a little more about the Sino-American Cooperative Organization on Wikipedia. Pictures I have found till now show US-built vehicles only, so how they came about a CMP will probably remain a mystery.