![]() Unloading the first Jeep in the South Pacific during Bora Bora Navy base construction in 1942 |
![]() Jeep in front of Vaitape Church during base set-up, Bora Bora 1942 ![]() "Fierce" Bora Bora Navy Shore patrol (1944) ![]() US Navy GPW jeep on atoll, 1944. Ph J. R. Eyerman/Life ![]() Willys CJ2A on medical mission on island of Tahiti (1949) |
![]() Wahines love WW2 MB-GPW jeeps left on the island by the US Navy (ca 1955, Bora Bora) ![]() a 1949 Willys Jeepster in Tahiti (1956 photo) ![]() French gendarmes in Willys MB "control" a bus in TAHITI (1958 propaganda photo) |
![]() Bora Bora WW2 jeep used by Chinese merchants in Uturoa (Raiatea) (ca 1962) ![]() GPW ex US Army Jeep in Taravao, 1963. Courtesy P. Carabasse). |
![]() WW2 jeep on dock in Papeete, 1962) ![]() Shooting "Tiara Tahiti" movie (1962) on the dock in Papeete. |
![]() Gendarmes helping "stranded" Vahines, Hotchkiss-Willys jeep (1965 propaganda photo) ![]() A Hotchkiss Willys M201 during the shooting of the movie "L'ordre et la morale" by Kassowitz on the atoll of Anaa in 2011. |