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!!
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!
52 M38 Willy's
Former owner and restorer of CCKW353 " Betty Boop"
proud father of a career Army officer/Blackhawk pilot/ War in Iraq veteran
Retired high school history teacher at Lt. Colonel Robert G. Cole CMH High School, Fort Sam Houston Texas
proud great grandson of four Confederate soldiers.
great great grandson of a War of 1812 veteran
great great great grandson of 2 American Revolutionary war veterans
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.
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.
Thoughts?
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