L&C military convoy reaches half way mark
Submitted Photo A group of the many different types historic military vehicles traveling with the Military Vehicle Preservation Association, Lewis & Clark 2026 Military Convoy, sit on public display at the Williams County fairgrounds in Williston July 27 at a public barbecue for the travelers as well as the public. Photo by Roger Riveland.
Submitted Photo Roger Hershberger, left, of Jesup, Iowa, chats with another convoy participant, near his 1941 Packard Navy staff car. Photo by Roger Riveland.
Submitted Photo Alan Johnson, of Port Orford, Oregon, (nearest jeep) talks with Julieann and Larry Korner of Williston at the Lewis & Clark 2026 Military Convoy after the barbecue at the Williams County Fairgrounds in Williston, while his wife Tammy waits in the Jeep. Johnson's World War II era Jeep, is formerly of the 401 Bomb Group, which guarded Fort Peck Dam. The dam was largely finished just before World War II. Photo by Roger Riveland.
Submitted Photo A group of the many different types historic military vehicles traveling with the Military Vehicle Preservation Association, Lewis & Clark 2026 Military Convoy, sit on public display at the Williams County fairgrounds in Williston July 27 at a public barbecue for the travelers as well as the public. Photo by Roger Riveland.
Submitted Photo Roger Hershberger, left, of Jesup, Iowa, chats with another convoy participant, near his 1941 Packard Navy staff car. Photo by Roger Riveland.
Submitted Photo Alan Johnson, of Port Orford, Oregon, (nearest jeep) talks with Julieann and Larry Korner of Williston at the Lewis & Clark 2026 Military Convoy after the barbecue at the Williams County Fairgrounds in Williston, while his wife Tammy waits in the Jeep. Johnson's World War II era Jeep, is formerly of the 401 Bomb Group, which guarded Fort Peck Dam. The dam was largely finished just before World War II. Photo by Roger Riveland.
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Since leaving Bismarck on Sunday, July 26, the Lewis & Clark 2026 Military Convoy, organized by the Military Vehicle Preservation Association (MVPA), is about at the halfway point of a nearly 2,000-mile trek that roughly follows the route of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery in 1805.
After leaving Bismarck, the North Dakota stops included a Sunday lunch in Washburn and overnight stay at Garrison. On Monday July 27, the group made a lunch stop in New Town and spent the evening showing the vehicles at a barbecue open to the public at the Williams County fairgrounds in Williston. The convoy spent the night in Williston before heading on its way Tuesday, July 28.
The convoy has roughly 45-50 vehicles of all types. There are genres of wheeled vehicles that include ambulances from both World War II and the Vietnam eras, a plethora of jeeps, transport trucks, semis, staff cars and even a U.S. Marine Corps motorcycle. There are vehicles from World War II through the 1980s and 1990s traveling with the group.
The convoy was scheduled to be in Orofino, Idaho, on Thursday, Aug. 6. It will spend three days in Lewiston, Idaho, after arriving on Friday, Aug. 7.
The convoy will end at Fort Stevens in Hammond, Oregon, near the mouth of the Columbia River, on Aug. 20.