| FIRE TRUCKS AT WAR |
| Updated July 09 |
| Photos from our files and our visitors |
| Great photo of a restored Holabird Class 110 crash truck. Rig served at Vicky Army Air Field, MO Photo by John Calderone |
| Nomenclature plate from a 1942 Seagrave Class 750 Seagrave Reg B 4240, truck carried Army reg 502056 and served at the AAF Depot, Columbus, OH |
| Comments and Suggestions Are always Welcomed milfireguy@comcast.net |
| The first civilian Fire Chief at Fort Jay, NY was William A Fraser, pictured in the center of the first row. William first served as a FDNY fire lieut and left that post for Fort Jay. Pictured sent in by his son Bill Fraser |
| Fort Jay Fire Chief William A Fraser |
| Robert van 't Oost lives in Belgium is restoring this beautiful 1943 Chev-General Detroit Class 325. Rig carried USA # 508662 Thanks for sending the photos along Robert. |
| 1941 Ford-Howe Class 500, USA 501020. Rig served at Camp Langdon, NH This great looking truck is owned by Jason Cleary |
| 1941 Ford-Darley, Class 500, USA 50954 Left view shows rig as offered on ebay and right shows rig in service at Camp Crowder, MO in 1942 Thanks to Bob for the use of his ebay photo. Matt Heffernan of Denver, CO is now the proud owner of this rig. |
| 1943 Chev-Maxim Class 500 USA 502864 owned by the Clinton, MA Fire Department. Rig carries Maxim serial # 116. Army records have this truck serving at Camp Ashby, VA Thanks to Richard Chalmers for the info & photo. |
| Civilian fire fighters and equipment at the Naval Base and Shipyard, Terminal Island, Long Beach, CA. 1945-6 Thanks to Mark Garcie for sending along the photo. |
| Robert van't Oost have completed restoration of his Class 325. For the occasion Jim Davis, a member of the 1204th Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon during WWII traveled to Belgium to view the truck. For Jim's service to his country during the war, Robert dedicated the truck in Jim's honor. Our thanks to Robert for the restoration and dedication. Thanks also to our friend Thorsten in Germany and Robert for the pictures. |
| Jacob Rietveld from Belgium has completed restoration of this 1942 American LaFrance Class 750, USA 502310. Looking beautiful in her OD uniform, this truck orginally was assigned to the Cornhusher Ordnance Depot in Nebraska. Our thanks go out to Jacob and his crew for the great restoration. Rig is owned by Jolanda Priem. |
| Clyde Heun from Shreveport, LA sent along these updated pictures of his 1942 Seagrave, Model 80E Class 750 former US Army pumper. The truck carries Seagrave Reg # B-4237 and was Army USA 502050. Rig served at Camp Hale, CO. Our thanks to Clyde for the pictures and the Seagrave information. |
| Al Diehl of NY sent in these photos of his 1941 USA Holabird, Class 750. The rig carried USA Reg. 50376 but we have not be able to locate where the rig served. |
| Paul Dewsnup owns this 1941 Seagrave Model 81-750 that once served with the US Army. The rig carried USA Reg. 50586 and Seagrave Reg. A7574. Built under a 1940 Quartermaster Corps contact the truck was delivered to the Army 15 Jan 41. We have not been able to locate where this Class 750 served while on Amy service. Thanks to Paul for contacting us and sending in the pictures and information. |
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