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War Department Technical Manual TM 9-801 - Restricted - Truck 2 1/2-Ton 6x6 GMC CCKW-352 and 353 April 24 1944
1944A49230Washington D. C.: War Department. Good. 1944. Early Reprint. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a Trade paperback book with cardstock covers and a glued spine. The book is in Good only condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners along with a couple of chips missing some ground-in dirt and spots of discoloration. There is a previous owner's inked notation on the front cover. The text pages are in generally clean condition though the pages have light toning. The top front corner of the book cover has been torn off chipped as have the first several pages beneath it. "The GMC CCKW also known as "Jimmy" or the G-508 by its Ordnance Supply Catalog number a was a highly successful series of off-road capable 21/2-ton 6×6 trucks built in large numbers to a standardized design from 1941 to 1945 for the U. S. Army that saw heavy service predominantly as cargo trucks in both World War II and the Korean War. The original "Deuce and a Half" it formed the backbone of the famed Red Ball Express that kept Allied armies supplied as they pushed eastward after the Normandy invasion. The CCKW came in many variants including open or closed cab long wheelbase LWB CCKW-353 and short SWB CCKW-352 and over a score of specialized models but the bulk were standard general purpose cargo models. A large minority were built with a front mounted winch and one in four of the cabs had a machine-gun mounting ring above the co-driver's position. " from Wikipedia . War Department paperback
