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M8 Greyhound with bridge plate and white star visible. The formation signs close to the tow hooks have been censored. (Paris 1944) M2 Medium Tank with early markings During World War I, the letters US or U.S. were used to identify vehicles of the American Expeditionary Forces.
This was used to calculate whether a vehicle, or series of vehicles, could safely cross a bridge with a given rating. While originally designed by the British as an affixed metal plate that was yellow in color, later in the war (and afterwards) it was commonplace to simply paint the number onto a vehicle whose weight was unlikely to change.
some 3-ton trucks including petrol, wireless and command, M14 multiple gun motor carriage half-track, White 15cwt half-track, 5 ton GS trailer 9: DUKW, 6 wheel 3-ton trucks such as machinery, most 6x4 vehicles, some 6x6 vehicles 10: 7 ton truck, 6 wheeled light recovery trailer, AEC 6-ton lorry, some 6x4 vehicles 11: Diamond T GS and pontoon 4 ...
Mercedes-Benz L3000 truck (27,700) was the most bought in 1944; Opel Blitz truck; Raupenschlepper Ost tracked truck; Steyr 1500A light truck; Horch 108 heavy off-road passenger car, Einheits-PKW der Wehrmacht; Volkswagen Kübelwagen 4-piston multipurpose all-terrain support vehicle (50,435) Volkswagen Schwimmwagen amphibious variant of the ...
Mack NO 7½-ton 6x6 truck; Mack NR; R. REO US6 U9; S. ... United States military vehicle markings of World War II; W. White 444T 4- to 5-ton 4x4 truck; Willys MB
US Army CCKW-353 truck displaying bumper markings. These indicate 3rd Army, 565th Anti-Aircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion, B Battery, 12th vehicle. Army Technical Bulletin 43-0209, Color, Marking, and Camouflage Painting of Military Vehicles, Construction Equipment and Materials Handling Equipment , standardizes how vehicle bumper numbers are ...
Ford F8 CMP truck with Type 11 cab. Canadian Military Pattern (CMP) trucks were mutually coherent ranges of military trucks, made in large numbers, in several classes and numerous versions, by Canada's branches of the U.S. 'Big Three' auto-makers during World War II, compliant to British Army specifications, [nb 1] primarily intended for use in the armies of the British Commonwealth allies ...
The Studebaker US6 was a series of 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton 6×6 and 5-ton 6×4 trucks manufactured by the Studebaker Corporation and REO Motor Car Company during World War II.The basic cargo version was designed to transport a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-short-ton (5,000 lb; 2,300 kg) cargo load over any type of terrain in any weather.