Patrick, good job I don't think you could have placed the time any better since it was dead on You are so right about the length of time it may take equipment to make it to the field. This very fact was a source of discussion about jeeps being at Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941. as has been depicted in every single movie on the subject. There may have been a few but they would have been Willys MAs and Ford GPs but no standardized MB/GPWs would have been there as they hadn't come off line at that point.
I do however, stand by my actual assessments of the jeeps in this photo in regards to their age
"I do however, stand by my actual assessments of the jeeps in this photo in regards to their age "
Of course! I expressly stated in my previous post that I did not doubt your assessment. But if we start off a discussion about inappropriate equipment on films, then there will be no end to it.
For me, one of the worst examples in recent years was in the newer film of Pearl Harbor - a row of steeply raked destroyer or frigate bows engulfed in flames that is so memorable that you can't help noticing that a) the shot is repeated several times, and b) the steeply raked bows were out of style for WW2 ships, and appear to be from the Knox* class frigates - built from 1965 onwards and a whole generation too late for the film.
*Or Brooke/Garcia?
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about 1min 38 sec in from the start.
Perhaps someone else could identify them better than I can?
P.S. I found the considerably older "Tora, Tora" much more convincing.
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Oh yeah! The modern Pearl Harbor movie is horrible and just to add one more from the not so recent past, "In Harms Way" The absolute worst of the worst I've ever had the displeasure of watching.
Good heavens! I just took another look at the film clip and used the pause button. The dropped-down after deck looks like a Spruance class destroyer (in mothballs when the film was made) - launched in the 1970s.
In truth, the movie Pearl Harbor had more in common with Titanyuck (Titanic) and Twister than with reality. As is often the case in Hollyweird, it was simply an epic love story, made epic by having loads of olive drab and haze gray stuff going BOOM! in the background while the star-crossed romance thrashed in the foreground.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
I thought TORA TORA TORA was good. Saw it in the cinema (remember them?) when it came out.
But while we're discussing films, sorry - off topic I know, I was very disappointed in the new film Fury, it could have been so, so much better.
Anyway, getting back to the topic, definitely Arabic numbers and, no rifle rack on the windshield, to confirm Bill's earlier observation. Nowhere to stow your M1!
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I don't think you could have placed the time any better since it was dead on 
You are so right about the length of time it may take equipment to make it to the field. This very fact was a source of discussion about jeeps being at Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941. as has been depicted in every single movie on the subject. There may have been a few but they would have been Willys MAs and Ford GPs but no standardized MB/GPWs would have been there as they hadn't come off line at that point. 
