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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 ...
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 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]
The 1 ⁄ 2 ‑ton, G-505 WC‑trucks remained in various uses to the end of World War II – from 1943 as "limited standard" vehicles. [14] Throughout the war, Dodge was the U.S. Army's sole producer of 3 ⁄ 4 ‑ton trucks, and built a total of 255,193 of these, across all variants, from April 1942 to August 1945.
The 6-ton 6×6 truck (supply catalog designations G512, 514, 526, and 547) was a family of heavy tactical trucks built for the United States Army during World War II. The basic cargo version was designed to transport a 6- short ton (5,400 kg) cargo load over all terrain in all weather.
“You just can’t communicate the knowledge of war to somebody else. It’s something that you know or don’t know, and once you know it you can’t un-know it and you have to deal with that knowledge,” explained Stephen Canty, a thoughtful 24-year-old who went through boot camp here in 2007, before his two combat deployments to Afghanistan.
In the column "Company" indicates the manufacturer of the truck, in the column "truck" model name is indicated, in the column "image" is a photograph of the model, in the "Type" column indicates the type of model payloads, here is submitted designations such as "chassis for missile launchers units", "tankovoz "pickup"; in the column "years of ...
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.