Jeep lashed to Submarine Deck

Yesterday I featured an ad that related a story about jeeps lashed to the decks of Submarines.

This article was published in the February 10, 1944 issue of the Eugene Register Guard:

I found this article on page 5 of the January 10, 1944, edition of the Southeast Missourian Newspaper:

And from page 2 of the February 10, 1944, issue of the Spokane Daily Chronicle:

And, on a note of trivia, I found this gem at an archived site:

In World War II, Burton Baskin of Baskin Robbins fame, was a quartermaster who began his ice cream career by trading a jeep for an ice cream freezer

Now, I don't know if that's true as I couldn't verify it anywhere else, but a fun fact if true.