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How One “Worthless” Truck Design Became the Backbone of Every Allied Victory

When the guns fell silent in May 1945, the war was over—but America’s engines kept running. Across the shattered landscapes of Europe, U.S. Army convoys that once hauled shells and fuel now carried food, medicine, and hope. From Le Havre to Hamburg and Antwerp to Munich, the same GMC 2½-ton “Deuce-and-a-Half” trucks that powered victory became the lifelines of peace. Soldiers called it Operation Handshake—machines of war turned into vehicles of survival. These trucks rebuilt roads, fueled the Marshall Plan, and became symbols of American ingenuity that helped a continent rise again. Even behind the Iron Curtain, engineers copied their design, proof that logistics—not firepower—had truly won World War II. They were more than vehicles; they were the heartbeat of recovery and the wheels that carried civilization forward. Sources: U.S. Army Ordnance Department CCKW 2½-Ton Truck Development Reports 1940–1945 General Motors GMC CCKW Production Records Pontiac Michigan 1941–1945 U.S. Quartermaster Corps Motor Transport Standardization Program World War II Red Ball Express Convoy Operations Normandy to Bastogne 1944–1945 (NARA 111-SC photos) U.S. Army Service Forces Logistics Reports European Theater of Operations 1944–1945 703rd Quartermaster Truck Company Unit Histories and Convoy Logs WWII Eisenhower “Tools of Victory” Statements Jeep C-47 GMC Truck 1945 Interviews U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Transportation and Logistics Findings 1945 Army Map Service ETO Supply Routes and Red Ball Express Maps 1944 (Public Domain) Signal Corps Film Series Red Ball Express and Motor Transport (Series 111-SC, NARA) U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum Fort Lee GMC Truck Exhibit Photographs WWII Motor Pool Operations TM 9-801 TM 9-805 Technical Manuals for CCKW and G-508 Lend-Lease Vehicle Transfers to USSR and Soviet CCKW Clones (ZIS-151, ZIL-157) Marshall Plan Transportation Fleet Reconstruction 1947–1952 (U.S. Army Surplus Trucks) U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps Historical Monograph “The Road to Victory” 1951 #ww2 #ww2documentary #ww2tales Subscribe : ‪@WW2FieldYT‬ Why US Submarines Sank Japan’s Supply Fleet Faster :    • Why US Submarines Sank Japan’s Supply Flee...   Germans Feared The Americans Daylight Bombing Raids :    • Germans Feared The Daylight Bombing Raids ...   German Soldiers Terrified as US Bazooka Teams Reduce Tiger Tanks :    • German Soldiers Terrified as US Bazooka Te...