CCKW Photographs | World War II Database

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GMC AFKWX 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transport truck, a predecessor to and cab-over version of the CCKW, date unknown	GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 closed cab gasoline tanker, 1940; it was capable of carrying 750 gallons of fuel	Dodge WC27 1/2 ton ambulances and CCKW 21/2 ton trucks loaded on railway flat cars for shipment from manufacturing plants to points of embarkation, circa 1941	Factory photo of an early GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 closed cab long wheel base transport with winch, Pontiac, Michigan, United States, 1940-1942

Factory photo of an early GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 closed cab short wheel base transport, Pontiac, Michigan, United States, 1940-1942	International Harvester M-5H-6 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transport truck with 12-ft. bed, built to the same specifications as the GMC CCKW but in much fewer numbers; Fort Holabird, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 1940s, photo 1 of 2	International Harvester M-5H-6 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transport truck with 12-ft. bed, built to the same specifications as the GMC CCKW but in much fewer numbers; Fort Holabird, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 1940s, photo 2 of 2	Cargo loaded in a C-46 Commando transport aircraft at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico while in transit to the European Theater, 1942. Note the CCKW truck.

A US Marine Corps motor detachment in New River, North Carolina, United States, May 1942	F6F-3 Hellcat of Navy Fighting Squadron 33 after dropping into a bomb crater at the Barakoma airstrip, Vella Lavella, Solomons, late 1943. Fighting 33 was one of the few land based fighter squadrons, a role later taken up by Marine squadrons.	US Army Private First Class George Chapman and Sergeant John Eppard working at the Mobile Machine Shop truck of 741st Ordnance Company, 41th Infantry Division at Horanda, New Guinea, 9 May 1943	GMC CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 open cab long wheel base transport with gun ring being prepared for shipment to North Africa, Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States, 27 May 1943

B-25 Mitchell bombers of the 42nd Bomb Group on the ramp at Munda, New Georgia, Solomons, 1943. Note B-24 Liberator nose turrets at left.	USS Boise firing on armor forces near Gela, Sicily, Italy as LST-325, full of US Army trucks, approached the landing beaches, 11 Jul 1943	LST unloading vehicles and supplies on the beach in Gela, Sicily, Italy, Jul 1943; note Ford GPW Jeep in foreground	Supermarine Spitfire of the US 307th Fighter Squadron rests on the beach at Paestum, Italy near Salerno after being shot down Sep 9, 1943; pilot uninjured. LST-391 unloads men and materiel beyond, Sep 1943. Photo 1 of 2

With LST-1 in background, US Army Engineers hauled a roll of wire mesh into position to make a beach roadway, Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943	B-24J Liberator “Our Baby” of the 27th Bomb Squadron at Funafuti Airfield, Gilbert Islands, Dec 1943.	United States Coast Guard-manned LST beaching at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Bismarck Islands, Dec 1943	Convoy of US Army CCKW 2 1/2 ton 6x6 cargo trucks, probably in the United States during training, 1940s