{"id":49510,"date":"2022-11-27T19:18:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49510"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:56:03","slug":"the-famous-jeep-willys-mb-from-the-wwii-era-and-its-little-known-radioactive-components","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/27\/the-famous-jeep-willys-mb-from-the-wwii-era-and-its-little-known-radioactive-components\/","title":{"rendered":"The famous Jeep Willys MB from the WWII era and its little-known radioactive components"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without a doubt, the 1941 Jeep Willys MB is the most famous military vehicle of all time, and today it is a highly admired collector's item.<\/p>\n

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Between 1941 and 1945, during World War II, nearly 650,000 units of this vehicle were built<\/strong>, to the point that Jeeps became a quarter of all American non-combat vehicles. Even today it is very common to see them in all kinds of military historical reenactment events. What is little known is that many of these vehicles were fitted with radioactive components.<\/strong> Very small components, yes.<\/p>\n

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Three Jeeps at the Ariete 2013 military historical reenactment event in La Coru\u00f1a, Spain (Photo: Contando Estrelas).<\/div>\n

A year ago, the YouTube channel Radioactive Drew<\/a> published an interesting video of the Montana Car Show. At 1:59 of the video, a Jeep Willys MB appears, and when passing a Geiger counter over its dials, the counter made the classic noise that indicates that it has detected radioactivity:<\/strong><\/p>\n