Dodge WC-52 in Canadian Service

[Gunner]

I'm with Hanno...

All white camouflage doesn't work well... most painting instructions I've read (and followed when I was a driver) note that all one colour fails to disrupt the shape of the vehicle. If you really want to break up the shape you even paint the canvas and the tyres (see the S&P M135 ala Norway 1981).

The paint is too pretty and even the belly parts are painted... trust me... if the Sergeant Major had to lie on his back to see it; we didn't paint it!

As MM has noted, we had vehicles better suited for the great white north than an open bodied WC.

BTW lots of APTs were used by the CF post war.

Last point... Canada has always scrupulously made a point of paying for our kit. we were a lend lessor not a lend lessee. We did not receive any freebees (that I am aware of) under MAP/MDAP. US kit used in Korea was bought and paid for with cash or trade in kind.

Gotta run, dining with Rob Clarke tonight and then going to the Orleans antique car show!

Cheers! Mike