Original Source Documents: August 16, 1943 - Gen. H.S. Aurand Memo - C. H. Payne
Contributor: Robert A. Notman
Source: Major General George A. Lynch Papers
Prior to this time, the Office of the Chief of Infantry had been interested in the development of a light machine gun carrier of low silhouette which would be self-propelled.
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This development has fallen between the Ordnance Department and the Quartermaster Corps and was relatively inactive about the summer of 1940.
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Apparently Mr. Payne knew of this development and proposed utilization of the Bantam automobile, or a modification of it, as a suitable vehicle in this field. So far as I know, for many months he was the only person outside the Army who was interested in this development. He called on me frequently and insistently. It was not until after a pilot model of the present "jeep" was shown at Fort Myer that other outside organizations became interested in its manufacture.
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