Germans Called This "Boat-Truck" A Joke — Until It Saved The Logistics War In Europe скачать в хорошем качестве

Germans Called This "Boat-Truck" A Joke — Until It Saved The Logistics War In Europe

Uncover the engineering battle behind the vehicle that bridged the gap between sea and land. While the Army focused on tanks and guns, a crisis was brewing: cargo ships were sitting idle off the coast because unloading them onto small boats, then unloading those boats onto trucks, was impossibly slow. The military establishment insisted a "hybrid" vehicle was physically impossible—it would be too heavy to float and too clumsy to drive. This documentary reveals how a civilian scientific committee (the NDRC), led by yacht designers Rod Stephens and Dennis Puleston, ignored the Army’s rejection. They took a standard GMC transport truck, encased it in a watertight steel hull, and invented a revolutionary dashboard-controlled tire pressure system. From the secret design labs to the dramatic moment a prototype rescued a Coast Guard crew in a storm when no other ship could, witness how this "ugly duckling" transformed from a laughing stock into the backbone of Allied logistics, carrying 3 million tons of supplies directly from ocean freighters to inland depots without ever stopping. #ww2 #worldwar2 #ww2stories #ww2history #navalhistory #militaryengineering #ww2engineering #ww2innovation #ww2reports