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By 1915, the US Army was using trucks tactically. When the US joined World War I in April, 1917 it began purchasing trucks in larger numbers. Early trucks were often designed for both military and commercial use, later military-specific designs were built. Since 1940 the US military has ordered over 3,000,000 tactical trucks. The US Marines ...
light truck: no: 1926-1930: United States Coleman: Coleman T1: heavy truck: no: 1926-1930: United States Coleman: Coleman FBD: heavy truck: yes: 1930-? United States Coleman: Coleman DW6: medium truck: yes: 1930-? United States Coleman: Coleman CF-55AF: tractor for towing bombers Convair B-36 Peacemaker and LGM-30 Minuteman ballistic missiles ...
US Military Wheeled Vehicles (3 ed.). Victory WWII. ISBN 0-970056-71-0. Doyle, David (2003). Standard catalog of U.S. Military Vehicles. Krause. ISBN 0-87349-508-X. Archived from the original on 15 January 2018; Standard Military Vehicle Data Sheets. Ordnance Tank Automotive Cmd. 1959.
The Class-B Standardized Military Truck or "Liberty Truck" was a heavy-duty truck produced by the United States Army during World War I.It was designed by the Quartermaster Corps with help from the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1917 in an effort to help standardize the immense parts catalogue and multiple types of vehicles then in use by the US military, as well as create a truck which ...
Their official model numbers were initially the "G4100", and later the "G7100" series. [4] They became standard 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton 4x4 trucks for the US Army and Army Air Corps during World War II. [4] During World War II, the US military purchased a total of 167,373 four by four 1 1 ⁄ 2-ton trucks, and Chevrolet supplied the great majority of them.
Mack Trucks has been selling heavy duty trucks and buses to the United States military since 1911. Virtually every model has been used. The majority have been commercial models designed and built by Mack with their own components, but they have also designed and built military specification tactical trucks. The military vehicles are rated by ...
Federal built its first U.S. military trucks in 1918 for the U.S. Army. [2] More diverse military (tractor) trucks, including tank transporters, dump trucks, and heavy wreckers, were built for U.S. forces from 1933 through 1945. Federal produced over 10,000 trucks for the military.
The Gama Goat was a six-wheel drive semi-amphibious off-road vehicle originally developed for use by the US military in the Vietnam War.The Goat uses an articulated chassis, so that from distance it appears to be a four-wheel drive vehicle pulling a two-wheel trailer, but it is a single six-wheel vehicle with a four-wheel steering arrangement with the front and rear wheels turning in opposite ...