https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2022/03/05/bill-white-oldest-living-marine-operation-valentine-dies-106/9390528002/

Once a Marine Always a Marine look how proud he was.

Hermtheoverdriveguy has reported in for duty!

http://hermtheoverdriveguy.com/

Overdrive & Barrel Gear

Yes fellow 4×4, Jeep, and Willys fanatics. It didn’t take long for all those who know performance to recognize a battlefield weakness in our Little Glory Jeep build.

Do you all recognize this? If not, listen up! This is powder in your cartridges, rounds in the chamber, and rounds on target. Ok, ok, let keep it in the motor transport lane. This is fuel in the tank. A genious upgrade a 25% overdrive for your Willys Jeeps. Look at this beauty.

This little guy bolts in place after removing your 26 or 29 tooth Main Drive gear or PTO/transfercase gear. This will atually give your Willys Jeep a 8 speed transmssion. Two reverse and 6 forward. That’s 1st-1st Overdrive, 2nd & 2nd OD, 3rd & 3rd OD….Now that is wicked good. All while keeping your low gear ratios axels as well as high and low range transfercase. Yes, the Captain does operate with these in his personal Jeeps he drives. Yes you can bury the speedometer at 60mph if you dare, and only push 2000 – 2500 rpms. Fun stuff, but we are talking mission here. Little Glory will be crossing the United States on open roads and dirt roads, but she will run like a champ with this capabilty added.

Want to know more? This says it all, and Herm is at the front in the trenches on all this great stuff. Check this out:

https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/1712-warn-overdrive-rebuild-making-jeeps-go-fast-again/

Want one? Need to ask a question? Talk to “the man”. You can reach Herm here:

Herm Tilford (dba ATV Mfg. Inc.)

18902 NE 164th St. (Shipping Address)

P.O. Box 805 (USPS Mailing Address)

Brush Prairie, WA 98606

(360) 256-3843 Phone

(360) 892-2220 Fax

Herm is not always available to answer the phone immediately.  Please leave a name, number and best time to call. Contact:  hermtheoverdriveguy@outlook.com

Let us give an Ohra and thank you to Herm Tilford and his family for their support of the Captain and this campaign!

Stay tuned for install and test drive with Herm’s build.

Now worries staying cool here thanks to Mike Meditz and everyone at KaiserWillys.com. No worries of rebuilding, solder joints, boiling out the old radiator. New is the only way to go. Perfect reproduction fit, drops right in.

After very close inspection by the Capatin, a few small problem were encountered with the transmission and transfer case rebuild from a few months back. Nothing but the best, so the tranny and transfer were removed and redone.

Now she is married up again for good. New seals all the way around, and bolted back in. We have a big surprise coming for that PTO cover…..Can you imagine what will be bolted up there?

All hooked up, ready for fluids, well almost.

It is so nice working with new parts, throw out bearing, spring and fork…but you just got to get your hands dirty or it just isn’t a rebuild..

Stay tuned as we keep building.

A final salute: Funeral for ‘Berlin Candy Bomber’ will be Tuesday in Provo

Gail S. Halvorsen will be buried in the Provo City Cemetery.

(Isaac Hale | The Daily Herald via AP) Gail Halvorsen, also know as the “Candy Bomber,” poses for a portrait at his son’s home in Midway on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. He died last week, and his funeral is set for Tuesday in Provo.By Scott D. Pierce  | Feb. 21, 2022, 11:06 a.m.

Funeral services for Utah’s Gail S. Halvorsen, the much-saluted “Berlin Candy Bomber,” will be Tuesday morning in Provo.

Halvorsen, a U.S. Air Force cargo pilot, gained fame for dropping treats to children during the Berlin airlift in 1948-49. When the Soviet Union cut off access to West Berlin and stopped supplying food for residents, the United States responded by flying supplies into the city.

(The Associated Press) Gail Halvorsen throws chocolate and chewing gum on parachutes from a “Raisin Bomber” over Berlin in October 1948. Halvorsen died last week at age 101.

More than 23 tons of candy were dropped from U.S. Air Force planes through Halvorsen’s Operation Little Vittles, which made him a hero in Germany, the United States and eventually around the globe. He died Feb. 16 at age 101.

There will be two viewings before the funeral:

• Monday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Nelson Family Mortuary, 4780 N. University Ave., Provo.

• Tuesday from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. at the Edgemont Stake Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 303 W. 3700 North, Provo.

The funeral will follow at 11 a.m. at the Edgemont meetinghouse. Halvorsen will be interred at the Provo City Cemetery, 610 S. State St.

Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Former Air Force Col. Gal Halvorsen drops 1000 candy bars from a World War II bomber over Scera Park, in 2015. He died last week and will be buried Tuesday in Provo.

According to the Gail S. Halvorsen Foundation, “long before his passing” the colonel asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the following organizations:

• Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation (www.spiritoffreedom.com).

• Gail S. Halvorsen Aviation Education Foundation(GailSHalvorsenAviationEducationMemorialFund).

• Primary Children’s Hospital (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/primary-childrens/give).

The Captain and Gartforvets has reached out to Portraits of Honor to help. I hope you can too! Time is critical and this project will stand forever in honor of so many who gave so much representing the America we know and love. Check this out!

Please visit the web page, watch this great video, donate and follow the project. Semper Fi!

https://www.portraitsofhonor.com

Everyone should make a trip to this one of a kind museum. Check it out!

https://www.nmmv.org/about_nmmv.php

https://www.ksl.com/article/50318967/motorhome-ignites-in-southern-utah-critically-injuring-father-and-2-children-

Gofundme for The Copeland family and Veteran Kyle Copeland:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-copeland-family-after-horrific-accident?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet

May God Bless this family as the move forward and recover from this life changing tragedy. Thank you for any help you may be able to provide.

Captain Montefusco

For those of you who know Willys Jeeps, you know there comes a time in every Jeep Owner’s life when you must make the steering wheel sacrifice. Yes Sports fans, as you can see the horn button mount was buggered up and it just needed to be replaced. This is a big job because NOBODY can remove a steering wheel that has been in place for 69 years. Ok, I know a few of you got lucky but for the most part it can’t be done. So you have to make the sacrifice and cut the wheel off. This steering shaft was not in good shape so a new shaft will be needed as well. Now once you replace the steering shaft you end up rebuilding the steering box too as you will see.

Cutting wheel angle grinder does the trick everytime.

Wheel removed time to spend more money buying parts….

Now we pull the steering box and tear it down. Remove all the parts inspect them for replacement and reuild.

A look at what is inside….$$ more parts needed.

The guts inside the steering box…

Very nasty dirty. Time to get the hands dirty. Steering shaft, ball bearings, sector shaft and seal.

Bushings, bearings, seal, steering shaft and wheel on the way…just another set back. But it is winter and things are moving slow now.

Good time to work on the instrument panel and guages. More parts and more $. The Captain has already pulled parts from another project to save some money. But we will still need some parts. Back to the work bench we go.

I would like to wish all those that have helped me and all those that are visiting my web page a very Merry Christmas. My thoughts and prayers are with those on the front lines serving our nation in the armed forces and our first responders. Have a safe Christmas and a productive New Year. Ohra!

Ok Sports fans we had to go out there and obtain another 1952 Willys M38 military Jeep body. This was a must to speed this build up. Yes the other body we had was going to work but required more work and TIME to get it right. Captain with the help of Colonial Flag Company of Sandy, Utah purchased this tub from someone who was not willing to help with the cause. Despite the price, it still needed work. But the mission must go on.

The Jet Fighter truck hauled the Jeep tub into the yard and to the Vehicle Maintenance Facility. Power washed and degreased she is ready for a little body work.

The Captain’s friend Lalo and good neighbor who wanted to help, went to work on the project.

Lalo is an expert at body repair and maintenance. Thanks to Lalo, despite the short window of time the Captain was ready to prime and paint the body after the repairs were made.

The Captain shot the body with a good coat of primer in preparation of good things to come.

Looking good, she has a day to dry in prep for her next treatment.

Hoisted up high to get underneath and all around the body she is sealed up and ready for the best.

Yes thats right sports fans its OD day. For you military veterans No the Captain doesn’t have Officer of the Day Duty (OD)….But he does have his paint hood on. The Captain’s favorite color of all time besides Red-White and Blue….is OLIVE DRAB. So the M38 is coming back to life…Military life that is!!

Oh yes the glory of Olive Drab. Its beautiful isn’t it!

In the shop drying as we speak, Engine install to be completed next. She “Little Glory as she is named” will be ready come Spring.

Made in the USA the 1952 M38 Willys!