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Was your truck made in early 1945? If you look back in history, resources were stretched very thin at that time. Even post war I am not sure that the supply chain of materials rebounded that quickly. I would imagine that recycled scrap may have made a greater percentage of sheet stock production. War effort steel was no different than for the civilian market as the supply chain was one and the same. One of the nine production lines continued to make civilian use vehicles during the extent of the war.
I found that the metal on my 41 welded okay provided it was not thin from rust. This is being said from a non-professional welder, but they were not cold lap welds.
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