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Originally posted by Cammer Cammer wrote:

That's a great pic.  I wonder how she got that MB so soon after the war.  Was the military selling off MBs as early as 47?  

My MB was titled as a 1946. They didn't make them that year so it was retitled when it was sold off on the market.
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Originally posted by Cammer Cammer wrote:

That's a great pic.  I wonder how she got that MB so soon after the war.  Was the military selling off MBs as early as 47?  
With the war over and many training bases in the continental United States reducing in size or closing altogether there were all kinds of surplus equipment for sale by the government by mid 1946.
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Originally posted by SE Kansas 46 CJ-2A SE Kansas 46 CJ-2A wrote:

Originally posted by Cammer Cammer wrote:

That's a great pic.  I wonder how she got that MB so soon after the war.  Was the military selling off MBs as early as 47?  
With the war over and many training bases in the continental United States reducing in size or closing altogether there were all kinds of surplus equipment for sale by the government by mid 1946.


That makes sense and gives me a perspective on something I just never thought about.  The USA maximized military industrial production for years, so I knew there was a LOT of surplus equipment.  I just figured they held onto it a few years post war.  I know they used MBs alongside the M38s in Korea, so they must have just sold off the older equipment.  


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