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Great Vehicle shots in this Youtube Video

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While this music is geared to the people from "the Colonies" there is some great color footage of WWII equipment. Including a picture of the type of Crash Truck I have in action!! 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR7HPQM0Jgg
1945 GMC DUKW
1942 Chevy 125 Crash Truck from Dow AAFB,
1944 Chevy 325 Fire Truck
1942 WC-54 Ambulance
1944 M29C Weasel (x6)
1945 CCKW 353 A2 Open Cab "Air-portable"
1943 M5 High Speed Tractor
1942 Sperry Searchlight setup with GE Generator
1942 M-1 Fruehauf Searchlight Trailer (G221)
1942 M-17 Fruehauf Quad 50 Trailer (G221)
1942 M-10 Ammo Trailer (x3)
194? Steel Ben Hur (x4) 194? Wood Ben Hur (x2)
1945 Case VAIW-3 Aircraft Tug
1943 Case VAI USAAF with Mower
1944 Clark CA-1 Airborne Dozer
1944 PE-95G, 1944 PE-99B
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Did you see that Jimmy with what looked like a tanker in the back :?

It's at 02:04 in the film.
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I did see that Mick.

I enlarged it and it looks like a portable tank installed in a Cargo.

I would like input on what is the very large trailer being pulled by a CCKW at 1:32 on the very bottom of the screen in front of LST 312. It looks too long for a Ben Hur.

Check out the mobile crane at 1:22. TM9-2800 says it will lift 30,000 and is almost 30 feet high. Wouldn't that look great in the yard! :shock:

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I would rather have a GMC crane, I can see that one slowing our convoy down.

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Mystery trailer

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Weasel, could it be a DUKW amphib trailer ?

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colin you don't see many of those around !!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D
1941 GMC 352 A1 Cargo 29595
1942 GMC 353 F2 Workshop 102620 ST6 Type M18 Electrical Repair
1942 GMC 353 B2 Cargo
1942 Ben Hur 1ton Wooden Cargo Trailer
1942 Chevrolet G506 G7113 Tractor 1NK 245837
1944 5ton The Trailer Company of America, Stake and Platform Semi Trailer
1943 Dodge WC63 6x6 82035401
194? Diamond T 968a 968A7471
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Cool trailer. :D
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Yes it is an extreemly rare amphib DUKW trailer!
Dr Deuce Over 50,000 driven miles in a CCKW
1942 CCKW closed cab shopvan
1943 CCKW closed cab cargo w/M32 MG mount
1944 CCKW open cab LeRoi Kompressor
1944 CCKW open cab F1 Aircraft fueler tanker
1945 CCKW open cab cargo w/artic cab
1942 Chev cargo
1942 Chev K51 Panel
1944 Chev M6 Bomb Truck
1942 GPW Jeep
http://home.comcast.net/~cckw/wsb/html/ ... 59870.html
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I am not so sure that this is a DUKW trailer....

This is an extremely blown up slice of a low resolution shot. Sorry about the quality...a pdf is the only way I could get it off of Youtube, enlarge it, and save it.

http://www.cckw.org/pdf/dukw_trailer_11.pdf

Axle is too far back on the trailer. Looks boxy not angled as the DUKW trailer is. And it is much larger in box size that a M-10 or Ben Hur. It is almost as long as the cargo body.

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1945 GMC DUKW
1942 Chevy 125 Crash Truck from Dow AAFB,
1944 Chevy 325 Fire Truck
1942 WC-54 Ambulance
1944 M29C Weasel (x6)
1945 CCKW 353 A2 Open Cab "Air-portable"
1943 M5 High Speed Tractor
1942 Sperry Searchlight setup with GE Generator
1942 M-1 Fruehauf Searchlight Trailer (G221)
1942 M-17 Fruehauf Quad 50 Trailer (G221)
1942 M-10 Ammo Trailer (x3)
194? Steel Ben Hur (x4) 194? Wood Ben Hur (x2)
1945 Case VAIW-3 Aircraft Tug
1943 Case VAI USAAF with Mower
1944 Clark CA-1 Airborne Dozer
1944 PE-95G, 1944 PE-99B
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