Editing Dodge (section)

===World War II===
Chrysler was prolific in its production of [[Materiel|war materiel]], especially from 1942 until 1945. Dodge in particular was well known to both average citizens and thankful soldiers for their tough military-spec light trucks and [[Dodge WC54|WC54]] ambulances. Dodge America – on paper under the [[Fargo Trucks]] name (in U.S. government contracts){{refn |group=nb| Within the Chrysler Corporation, the ''Fargo'' Division handled government contracts,<ref>{{cite book |ref=SRATAM4045|editor=Chief of Ordnance Office |editor2=Military Vehicle Preservation Association |title=Summary Report of Acceptances, Tank-Automotive Materiel, 1940-1945 (Revision) |location=Detroit |publisher=U.S. Army Service Forces, Office: Chief of Ordnance-Detroit, Production Division, Requirements and Progress Branch |publication-date=December 1945 |date=2010 |pages=19, 58, 64 }}</ref> but the trucks were all built by ''Dodge''.}} – built over 400,000 trucks for the war,<ref name=WW2industry>{{cite web|url= http://usautoindustryworldwartwo.com/Chrysler/dodge-trucks.htm|title=Dodge Trucks in WWII |website=usautoindustryworldwartwo.com|access-date=May 30, 2019}}</ref> in its nearly new (1938) [[Warren Truck Assembly|Warren truck plant]] at Mound Road, near Detroit, Michigan.<ref name=HydeArsenal>{{cite book |last=Hyde |first=Charles K. |year=2013 |title=Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World {{nobr|War II}} |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=P-PCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA152 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |pages=152–153 |isbn=9780814339527 |ref=HydeArsfn }}</ref><ref name=Doyle2011>{{cite book |last=Doyle |first=David |title=Standard Catalog of U.S. Military Vehicles |edition=Second |year=2011 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Ljdma-SYU0gC&pg=PA100 |location=Iola, Wisconsin |publisher=Krause Publications |page=100 |isbn=9781440225727 |ref=DoyleCatalog2 |access-date=August 9, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180620024853/https://books.google.nl/books?id=Ljdma-SYU0gC&pg=PA100 |archive-date=June 20, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Starting with the quickly converted VC and VF-series of 1940, Dodge built mostly light 4x4, but also light-medium 6x6 [[Dodge WC series|WC-series trucks]], that evolved out of the VC-series. Smaller numbers of other models were built for China and Russia under [[Lend-Lease]].<ref name=WW2industry/> Additionally, Chrysler Canada was enlisted to crank out another 180,000 Dodge trucks for the British and the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] militaries, over three-quarters of which were 3-ton trucks to be used in the [[Canadian Military Pattern truck|CMP role]].<ref name=Granatstein>{{cite report |last=Granatstein |first=Jack |author-link=Jack Granatstein |date=May 27, 2005 |title=Arming the Nation: Canada's Industrial War Effort 1939–1945 |url= http://www.ceocouncil.ca/wp-content/uploads/archives/Arming_the_Nation_A_Paper_Prepared_by_Dr_Granatstein_May_2005.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171213210304/http://www.ceocouncil.ca/wp-content/uploads/archives/Arming_the_Nation_A_Paper_Prepared_by_Dr_Granatstein_May_2005.pdf |archive-date=2017-12-13 |url-status=live |publisher=Canadian Council of Chief Executives |page=12 |access-date=2018-03-06 }}</ref>

Dodge readily built upon the reputation of the WC-series for itself, by carrying it over into civilian models after the war, beginning with the successful [[Dodge Power Wagon|Power Wagon]], introduced with minimal modification almost immediately after the war, in 1945, for the 1946 model year.