WWII jeep rainforest trip

A weekend trip over the 17th and 18th November 2007 by the Military Jeep Club of Queensland through some of the temperate rainforests and forests of northern New South Wales, Australia. Six vehicles came along, all World War Two vintage. They were: 3 Ford GPW jeeps 2 Willys MB jeeps 1 Dodge WC-52 Weapons Carrier We met at the clubhouse at 6:30am on a rainy Saturday morning. The rain didn't clear up until we we had done about 50 or 60 miles. After that it was overcast but still quite warm. We camped overnight in a public camping ground and toured some more forests and national parks on the Sunday before returning home. This footage was taken with two different cameras - a camcorder and a digital still camera in movie mode. Hence the drop in picture and sound quality here and there. I also compressed it a lot to fit within YouTube's upload limitations.
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3957. From the Archives. Press any blue simian1842 or simian1842a button to see all BEST videos. 49 at the Comanche Homecoming 2009. Not much pictures, but good 49 singing. One of the last of the "all night - inside the circle" 49's. Sultan Park, 1 mile N of Walters, OK. This powwow was started by the Comanche Veterans of World War I, who invited neighboring tribes' veterans to celebrate the World War I victory. In the 1920's Cheyenne and Arapaho veterans came down by wagon and camped for a week at this powwow led by WWI Pvt Striking First. After these veterans aged, the powwow was resurrected by returning veterans from World War II, they invited neighboring tribes and formed the American Indian Veterans Association. Eventually, the powwow was taken over by the Walters Service Club and renamed the Comanche Homecoming Powwow. This area was a favorite Comanche camping ground long before 1900, and powwows were held here since the 1800's. The US Army Dragoons, in the 1800's, came to a huge encampment of Comanches stretching from about this area north throughout East Cache Creek, up east of Lawton, and into the Wichita Mountains, at the time (before epidemics) the Comanche population was estimated to be about 30000 to 40000. They claimed all the land south of the Arkansas River in Kansas, to the Rio Grand in Mexico, and from the mountains near Roswell NM to the Cross Timbers north and south of Ft Worth TX. They allowed the Kiowa and Kiowa Apache tribes to settle on their land ...
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