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Warfare

The Jeep and World War II

Warfare

History Hit

History

4.5943 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We’re shaking things up today and sharing a preview from Car Show!, a new podcast from our friends at Pushkin Industries. Longtime Car and Driver editor Eddie Alterman tells the stories of the vital cars — the ones that have changed how we drive and live, whose significance lies outside the scope of horsepower or miles per gallon. In this episode, Eddie talks about the military background of the Jeep, a vehicle made for the battlefields of World War II, and its lasting popularity in America decades after the war.


You can listen to the full episode and more from Car Show! at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/carshow?sid=warefare.


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0:00.0

Hello everyone welcome to the history here warfare podcast now every week on a Wednesday, I dig into the History Hit Archive

0:15.8

to pull out an episode that I think deserves a bit more attention, but I'm going to do something

0:19.3

a bit different this week. I'm sharing an episode of a new podcast that I've been enjoying. It's called

0:25.0

Car Show and it's hosted by Eddie Altaman, a longtime editor at Car and Drive and

0:30.3

the chief brand officer at Hurst autos.

0:34.0

Eddie thinks that all cars are great, even the awful ones,

0:37.0

but some cars transcend their carness.

0:41.0

On car show, he shares the stories of vital cars that have changed how we drive and live and the ones whose significance lie outside the scope of just

0:50.9

horsepower or miles per gallon. Now you may be wondering what

0:55.2

cars have got to do with war. Well there's a specific car that acted as a

1:00.3

breakthrough technology during the Second World War.

1:03.2

That is the Jeep.

1:05.0

The Jeep Wrangler was created in the 1940s to serve on the battlefield.

1:10.4

It glided into France on D-Day and it slogged through the bulge.

1:15.0

Today you're more likely to find the Jeep cruising around on a beach and on the front lines,

1:20.0

but they still remain true to their military roots.

1:24.0

Now Eddie talks about these, I suppose you can call them out of date

1:28.3

jeeps, these iconic older looking military rugged systems systems but they are one of America's most iconic

1:36.0

cars of all time and they still managed to sell so well. So here's a preview of

1:42.0

car show from our friends at Pushkin Industries. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do and to hear more from

1:48.4

Car Show you can get it wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy. Okay, that's 90. Let's not do that.

2:06.8

Okay, that's 90.

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