Mobile secret weapon none other than Flak Happy jeep
With 9th Air Force TCC, France (UP) – (June 11, delayed)
A sentry called the sergeant of the guard on a beachhead northwest of Carentan and reported, “It looks like a secret weapon approaching.”
The sergeant looked and replied, “Let it pass, that’s a flak-happy jeep.”
Flak Happy, salvaged from wreckage, was the first jeep to gain renown among U.S. troops on the Cherbourg Peninsula.
When a glider flying troops and equipment behind the lines cracked up, the jeep was damaged so badly that ordnance men abandoned it, but it was repaired so well it provided transportation for 12 glider pilots back to the beachhead to be evacuated for further missions. Among them was Flight Officer B. Ripson of Hempstead, New York.