Belgian 5th Special Air Service Regiment Jeep

This Belgian 5th Special Air Service Regiment Jeep complete with bullet holes, was on display at the Musée royal de l’armée et de l’histoire militaire or Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels.

The Belgian 5th Special Air Service Regiment (SAS), a special airborne unit, specialised in sabotage and military intelligence gathering during World War II.

The Willys MB and the Ford GPW, both formally called the U.S. Army Truck, ​1⁄4-ton, 4×4, Command Reconnaissance, commonly known as the Jeep. The jeep became the primary light wheeled transport vehicle of the United States Military and its Allies in World War II, as well as the postwar period, with President Eisenhower once calling it, “one of three decisive weapons the U.S. had during WWII.

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