The one I liked was the latest WWII submarine movie (U-286 or whatever)
where the "commandos" are off loading their ammo from a truck and the crates
are marked with U.S. Department of Transportation hazard labels.
Larry Smith
Chester, VA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Faure, Marin" <Marin.Faure@PSS.Boeing.com>
To: "'Land Rover Mail Group'" <LRO@works.team.net>
Sent: 03 April, 2001 01:44 PM
Subject: LRO: Rovers in WWII
> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 10:05:41 -0400
> From: "A. P. \"Sandy\" Grice" <rover@pinn.net>
> Subject: LRO: Rovers in WWII
>
> "Alex Maiolo" <Rovernut@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >I can't think of any WWII movie that's been lame enough to use a Land
Rover,
> >although I have seen quite a few with much later issue jeeps.
>
> I saw a bit of a low-budget WWII movie a few months ago on TV. The part
> I saw had some agent being picked up at a remote airfield to be taken into
> or out of Germany. The plane came in to get her (I think the agent was a
her),
> and it was a Cessna 206. Can't get much more accurate than that.
>
> There's also a scene in the Pearl Harbor movie "Tora Tora Tora" where a
> Jeep drives down a pier next to a ship. The Jeep has Warn hubs on it.
> ___________________________
> C. Marin Faure
> (original owner)
> 1973 Land Rover Series III-88
> 1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
> Seattle
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