07-21-2005, 01:54 PM
The picture above was taken in Southern France. That's my jeep and my driver, PFC Norman Steele. Jeeps carried only one spare wheel and tire.
Razor sharp shell fragments, particularly at road junctions, were plentiful and unavoidable. They cut the tires up and if you didn't have a second spare, you were in trouble. There was no room for another inside the jeep. Some drivers hung a spare wheel & tire over the angle iron wire cutter welded to the front bumper.
Notice the French flag wired to the wire cutter and my carbine lying on the hood.
Russ Cloer