Feb 12

0900 Pack up "U.S.S. JEEP 111180". 

WWII Jeeps were quite a bit smaller and more primitive than today's Jeeps. They got by with a 60 horsepower 4 cylinder engine.

This jeep was found here.

Weather protection was pretty flimsy, consisting of a light canvas top that flapped quite well in the wind.

This jeep was found here.

Here is one with some people so you get a better idea of the size. Small!

All these jeeps, and more are at this site.

Out of dusty Cairo with the air laden with donkey-, horse-, and camel-dung dust. We roll out across the colorless Sinai Desert bound for Suez, ninety miles to the Eastward. 

Over causeway through quaint squalor of Suez. Over second causeway to Port Tewfick. 

Newell drives me through U.S. Army camp at Ataka, and around head of Red Sea to the Adabiya Dock.

Here is some more information on the Suez Canal.