The U.S. Army Jeep... A Militarist's Dream Come True -- Ever since man invented the fighting machine --since the ancient days of the catapult and the battering-ram--military minds have dreamed of such an all round fighting machine as the United States Army Jeep. With .30-or .50-calibre machine guns mounted on her, she is a good combat vehicle. She is also used as a prime mover for a 37-mm Anti-Tank gun. Equipped with a wire wheel for laying telephone wires, she is much used by the Signal Corps. In the Armored Force, she mounts a 37-mm gun. She is useful in chasing enemy parachutists. In the Cavalry, she can do the work of a horse. She can go anywhere. She can wade through mud or snow, or scoot across bomb-pocked fields, or between trees in a thick forest. January 04, 1951.