Aside from large amounts of 1 1⁄ 2- and 2 1⁄ 2‑ton trucks, and 25,000 3⁄ 4‑ton Dodges – some 50,000 1⁄ 4‑ton jeeps were shipped to help Russia during WWII – against Nazi-Germany's total production of just over 50,000 Kübelwagens, the jeeps primary counterpart. allies, including the Soviet Union at the time. Large numbers of jeeps were provided to U.S. non-combat motor vehicles produced during the war, or almost two-thirds of the 988,000 light 4WD vehicles produced, when counted together with the Dodge WC series.

With almost 650,000 units built, the jeep constituted a quarter of the total U.S. had during WWII.' It was the world's first mass-produced light four-wheel drive car. The jeep became the primary light-wheeled multi-role vehicle of the United States military and its allies, with President Eisenhower once calling it 'one of three decisive weapons the U.S. Army Truck, 1⁄ 4-ton, 4×4, Command Reconnaissance, commonly known as the Willys Jeep, Jeep, or jeep, and sometimes referred to by its supply catalogue designation G503, were highly successful American off-road capable light military utility vehicles, built in large numbers to a single standardized design, for the United States and the Allied forces in World War II from 1941 until 1945. The Willys MB and the Ford GPW, both formally called the U.S.

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