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Group 4 serial number of the vehicle. The Serial number of the vehicle in normal order of march. Vehicles assigned to headquarters will be grouped with HQ vehicles and given small serial numbers. [4]: 9 It was normal to adopt a convoy order number in a logical format, HQ vehicles would be numbered 1-10, 1st platoon 11-20, 2nd platoon 21-30 etc.
List of equipment used in World War II; List of armoured fighting vehicles of World War II; List of prototype World War II combat vehicles; Military equipment of Germany's allies on the Balkan and Russian fronts (1941–45) List of U.S. Signal Corps Vehicles; G-numbers; Hobarts Funnies
To Shining Sea: a History of the United States Navy, 1775–1998 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1999) ISBN 0-8061-3026-1; Love, Robert W., Jr. History of the U.S. Navy (1992) vol 2 ch 1-13; Sandler, Stanley. World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia (2000) Spector, Ronald. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan (1985) Symonds ...
United States Aerial refueling/transport KC-130T 10 [3] Transport; C-2 Greyhound: United States Carrier based transport C-2A 33 [3] Planned to be Replaced with V-22 Osprey: C-12 Huron: United States Transport UC-12 13 [3] C-20 Grey Ghost: United States Transport C-20G 3 [3] C-26 Metroliner: United States Transport C-26D 8 [3] C-38 Courier ...
The Ford GTB, commonly called the Burma Jeep, was a 1 1 ⁄ 2-ton 4x4 truck produced during WWII by Ford and was used primarily by the United States military, primarily the US Navy and Marine Corps. The GTB was used primarily in the Pacific Theater during World War II, with many being used on the "Burma Road". [1] [2] [3] GTBs remained in ...
The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War (2007), condensed version; Offley, Edward. Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic (Basic Books, 2011) O'Hara, Vincent P. The German Fleet at War, 1939–1945 (Naval Institute Press, 2004)
The US Army's standard 6-ton truck during World War II, it was built by Brockway, Corbitt, FWD, Ward LaFrance and White in three chassis lengths and several body types. [1] 7½-ton 6×6 truck 7½-ton truck 6x6: 1940s A standardized 7 1 ⁄ 2-ton truck used during World War II; it was produced by Biederman, Federal and REO. [2]
Only about 25 carrier-launched aircraft models were used extensively for combat operations. Of these, nine were introduced during the war years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought United States into the war, four by the United States Navy (USN) and three by the Royal Navy (RN) and two by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).