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The Rise and Fall of American Military Deuce-and-a-Half Trucks

Did you know that the most important weapon in the most mechanized army in history wasn't a tank, a fighter plane, or a battleship — but a truck that topped out at forty-five miles per hour and made less horsepower than a Honda Civic? This is the full story of the American Deuce-and-a-Half, from the GMC CCKW that rolled off the Normandy beaches in 1944 to the M35 gun trucks that fought through Vietnam's Ambush Alley with scavenged armor and painted war names. You'll learn how over half a million of these trucks were built in just four years, how nearly six thousand of them formed the backbone of the Red Ball Express — a round-the-clock convoy operation staffed by seventy-five percent African American drivers who delivered over four hundred thousand tons of supplies across France in eighty-two days — and how the M35 successor served for over fifty years before the Army finally managed to replace it in 2011. This isn't the story of battlefield glory. It's the story of the unglamorous, absolutely essential machine that kept every American war effort fed, armed, and moving from World War Two through Afghanistan. #DeuceAndAHalf #GMCCCKW #M35Truck #MilitaryTrucks #RedBallExpress #WWII #WW2History #MilitaryHistory #VietnamWar #GunTrucks #AmbushAlley #MilitaryLogistics #USArmy #TransportationCorps #ArmoredConvoys #WorldWarTwo #ColdWarVehicles #MilitaryVehicles #DeuceAndAHalfTruck #AfricanAmericanHistory #PattonArmy #NormandyInvasion #KoreanWar #MilitarySurplus #EngineeringHistory