The U.S. forces in Britain hold their first maneuvers which stressed the use of chemical warfare. Mechanized troops, including scouts on motorcycles, jeeps, and scout cars were thrown into the attack to give the American troops a taste of modern warfare. A combat car advances to the attack through a smoke screen during the maneuvers on October 5, 1942. #

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Edwin Barclay of Liberia review a crack detachment of African-American troops from their army jeep, during FDR's stop-over in Liberia, on his return from Casablanca, Morocco, on January 31, 1943. The troops were the first American soldiers to land in Africa during World War II. #

A jeep drives along the causeway to Mont St. Michel in France on July 8, 1944, well known to many British holiday makers before the war. The area was evacuated by the Germans as the flood of American armor rolled across into Brittany. #

American soldiers in jeeps make a detour in a street of Coutances, France on August 1, 1944, mined by the retreating Germans. Behind the mine marker is a U.S. tank wrecked by a mine. #

An American soldier drives a jeep with a large "Follow Me" sign to a designated parking spot for the giant bombers on the airfield at Eniwetok, in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, on September 12, 1944. Lights are attached at top of the sign for night parking. #

The first Americans to enter the Rhineland capital of Cologne, Germany, on March 6, 1945, are Lieutenant Colonel C.L. Miller, left, and Private First Class J.B. Howard, studying a map in their jeep before pushing towards in heart of the capital. #

A trailer jeep filled with retreating American soldiers goes past a huge fire consuming bridging materiel in Pyongyang, on December 3, 1950. The material was originally airlifted into Korea and was burned also of advancing Chinese and North Korea Communist troops. #

Captain David LaLoge, center, of Emporia, Kansas, calls from his communications jeep for artillery support for five tanks in his command which were caught in an ambush by Chinese on the Korean front northwest of Chunchon, South Korea on March 30, 1951. The jeep driver at left is Private First Class William L. Patterson, of Woodruff, West Virginia, and studying map at right is Lieutenant Aaron C. Adkins of Atlanta, Georgia, #

The Army’s Jeep, the little car that can maneuver with the greatest of ease, even goes over water. Wrapped in canvas, a Jeep provides a skiff for a squad crossing a stream. #

A young boy plays with the G.I. Joe doll, which is built on an anatomical model, at a New York City toy store in 1965. The doll sits in a battery-powered jeep with a toy rocket launcher and a battery-operated searchlight in a trailer. #

During heavy fighting in the western part of Saigon, a Vietnamese Marine jeep carrying a wounded man passes a less seriously wounded Marine being carried by a buddy on May 29, 1968. Fighting flared after an estimated Viet Cong battalion moved into the area. Much of the area was turned into rubble as fighting and fires spread. #

A wide assortment of discarded jeeps, trucks, tanks, helicopters, and cranes fill a huge junkyard on the Danang airbase waiting to be cannibalized for spare parts or sold to scrap iron dealers in March 1970. #

President Jimmy Carter, right, and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stand in a jeep as they watch joint U.S. and West German forces air-mobile training at nearby U.S. Erbenheim airbase in Germany on July 15, 1978, where Center reviewed a parade of U.S. and West German troops. #

Protesters leap from their jeep as police stone and fire teargas at them outside the American Center, Sunday, February 12, 1989 Islamabad. At least five people were killed and fifty-five injured when police fired into the crowds using live rounds to stop them from attacking the center. A few thousand Pakistanis marched on the center in protest against the U.S. publication of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses. #

A Thai auto-worker assembles a Jeep Cherokee at an assembly plant in suburban Bangkok, on September 21,1995. Thai-Chrysler Automotive Ltd. has launched local assembly of the Jeep Cherokee, the first American vehicle produced in Thailand. #

Tom Sidlik, chief platform engineer for Jeep, left, and Chrysler Group president Dieter Zetsche stand in front of DaimlerChrysler's 2002 Jeep Liberty, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, on January 7, 2001. #

Rows of new Jeep Liberties are lined up for shipment outside the Toledo North Assembly Plant Monday, on April 30, 2001, in Toledo, Ohio. Carriers in the background hold Jeep Wranglers which are built at the old Jeep plant in Toledo and finished at the new plant. #

The image of a jeep is shadowed on the side of the road at the Mokolodi Game Reserve, on June 26, 2003, during a literary tour of the Gaborone area of Botswana. The trail follows the footsteps of the fictional character Precious Ramotswe, heroine of the bestselling series The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. #

A man stands on a jeep on the beach of Arromanches, western France, June 5, 2014. World leaders and veterans marked the 70th anniversary of the invasion in Normandy. #