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Originally Posted by Sapphireho
My understanding is when the US started occupying Japan they didn't want to have to ship jeeps there, so they told Toyota to start making jeeps for our troups. That is why you have old Toyotas that look a lot like jeeps.
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Nope. Urban legend at best. There were something like 300,000 Jeeps in the Pacific at the end of the war and transports were going back and forth to Japan by the hundreds. They didn't need to build any more Jeeps.
The real story is quite different:
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