86 items in this album on 5 pages.
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LSTs landing vehicles and cargo on a Normandy beach, June 1944, photo 2 of 2 | Rhino ferry RHF-19 landing CCKW trucks and other vehicles on Omaha Beach, circa 10 Jun 1944. Note Soldier in the right foreground, with waterproofing taped around his rifle. | Military vehicles move ashore from Mulberry Artificial Harbor A, across a pontoon bridge, to Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, June 16 1944 (D+10). Visible are M3 Halftracks, an M8 Greyhound, and AFKWX 2½-ton Trucks. | Wrecked German Tiger I heavy tank near Rome, Italy, 18 Jun 1944 |
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Blood and plasma moving from Britain to the front lines in France, 1944; note C-47 Skytrain aircraft and GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 short wheel-base truck | CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 of the American Red Cross exiting landing craft during the Normandy campaign, France, 1944 | Convoy of US CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transport trucks moving inland after heavy equipment cleared the road, Normandy, France, 1944; note Jeeps and heavy earth moving equipment | Allied cargo transfer point on Omaha Beach, 19 Jul 1944; note British battleship Centurion in the center of background |
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US Army convoy passing through the remains of Saint-Lô, France during the Normandy invasion, 29 Jul 1944; note Jeeps, CCKW 2-1/2 ton transports, Studebaker M29 Weasel, and Dodge WC54 field ambulance | US Army CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 cargo trucks bringing supplies to US Navy LSTs, Naples, Italy in preparation for the invasion of southern France, Aug 1944 | US Army CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 cargo truck pulling rear half of another, forming the Mobile Optical Section of the 12th Medical Depot Company, US 5th Army, Volterro, Italy, 9 Aug 1944 | US Army CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 cargo trucks unloading supplies from US Navy LSTs in Marseille, France, Sep 1944 |
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LST-72 and LST-325 unloading directly onto trucks after being left 'high and dry' by the tide at Morlaix, France, 5 Sep 1944 | American transports unloading supplies at Morotai, Sep 1944, photo 1 of 2 | A truck of the US Army 'Red Ball Express' fell into a ditch at the side of a road; GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transports lined the road as a GMC AFKWX tractor struggled to free itself, France, 1944 | Troops of US 101st Airborne Division watching C-47 Skytrain aircraft delivering supplies to their unit, Bastogne, Belgium, 26 Dec 1944 |
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2 1/2-ton truck on fire, France, 1944-1945; the truck had been carrying an estimated 800 gallons of fuel | An early US Army CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 long wheel-base chassis truck fitted with a Mobile Optical Repair unit for the Medical Corps, 1944-1945 | Early CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 long wheel-base chassis truck fitted with a Mobile Dental unit for the 47th Armd Medical Battalion, US 1st Armored Division, probably in Italy, 1944-1945 | High-angled view of a GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 truck converted to serve as a spectacle workshop; some 15% of US soldiers used glasses in the war |
86 items in this album on 5 pages.