From the Nay 18, 2012, Virginian Pilot by Veronica Gonzalez.
The bus arrived four years ago and was in really bad shape. It has now been restored in baby blue paint and new vinyl. It had once been used by Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. It is now heading for Jacksonville, N.C., where it will be displayed at the Museum of the Marine, soon to be under construction.
The work was done at the St. Brides Correctional Center in Chesapeake in the body shop.
It was used in the 1940s to carry Marines off base for liberty in Kinston and Wilmington. Construction workers also rode it to the base while it was being built.
The 1934 GMC bus was loaned to the prison in 2008 and is now donated to the museum.
I bet the Marines really liked that bus.
A Real Piece of a Different Part of World War II. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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