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A Red Ball Express truck gets stuck in the mud during World War II, 1944. 1971 AM General M35A2 with winch and camouflage cargo cover. The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton, 6×6 truck was a standard class of medium duty trucks, designed at the beginning of World War II for the US Armed Forces, in service for over half a century, from 1940 into the 1990s.
1 ⁄ 2 –1 1 ⁄ 2-ton truck 4x4 / 6x6: 1941 Produced by Dodge, initially as a 1 ⁄ 2-ton then later an upgraded and revised 3 ⁄ 4-ton 4x4 truck, it was produced in a number of body types, a 1 1 ⁄ 2-ton 6x6 version which shared many components was also produced; more than 255,000 of all versions were manufactured during World War II. [22 ...
Restored CCKW 353 Cargo truck with open cab, machine gun ring, and front-mounted winch. The GMC CCKW, also known as "Jimmy", or the G-508 by its Ordnance Supply Catalog number, [a] was a highly successful series of off-road capable, 2 1 ⁄ 2-ton, 6×6 trucks, built in large numbers to a standardized design (from 1941 to 1945) for the U.S. Army, that saw heavy service, predominantly as cargo ...
front cover G1 1930. This is the Group G series List of the United States military vehicles by (Ordnance) supply catalog designation, – one of the alpha-numeric "standard nomenclature lists" (SNL) that were part of the overall list of the United States Army weapons by supply catalog designation, a supply catalog that was used by the United States Army Ordnance Department / Ordnance Corps as ...
Name and type [1] [2] Build years Total built Notes Dodge M1918 1 ⁄ 2-ton 4x2 1918 1,012 Light repair truck for vehicles White 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton 4x2: 1917–1919: Wide range of bodies Jeffery/Nash Quad [a] 2-ton 4x4: 1913–1928: 11,500+ Early models had 4-wheel steering Liberty truck 3-ton 4x2: 1917–1918: 9,452: built by 15 different ...
The M274 evolved from improvements to a vehicle designed at the end of World War Two by Willys-Overland as a medical evacuation litter carrier from areas and terrain that would be a problem for the standard light vehicle of the period (the Jeep) to access. U.S. Patent 2457400 for the original design was applied for on December 2, 1944 and ...
M29 Weasel carrier, cargo, full-track, 1/2-ton, amphibious (G179) M30 cargo carrier (G158) based on M4 Sherman; M31 tank recovery vehicle (M3 Grant) M32 recovery vehicle (M4 Sherman) M32A1 recovery vehicle, medium, 16 1 ⁄ 2 inch full-track M32A1B1 recovery vehicle, medium, 23 3 ⁄ 4 inch full-track (M4A1 chassis) M32A1B2 recovery vehicle ...
The "Fénix" is a M4E1 tower, recovered from a car M42 Duster and 2 M50 machine guns .30 caliber for Protective Part (a cylindrical tower made of welded armor plate with open top with twin mounting Bofors 40 mm gun), mounted on a tactical platform Truck 6x6 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton Reo M-35. [citation needed]