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1941 · 016234 — Pontiac Michigan: Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Company 1941. Soft cover. Good. Card wraps. Moderate soiling to covers. Bottom inch of spine is surface chipped. Contemporary pinup-type pencil drawings sketched on a few pages. Original owner's name on first page Sidney Hutto of Columbia SC who worked as a driver at Fort Jackson during the war along with his wife's and first child's names. A few other penciled notations on two pages near front. Pages are generally clean with some grubbiness on the first page. Unit Index page has a torn corner no loss of text. One other page is torn and lacks its bottom half appears to be blank areas on both sides without loss of text. Thoroughly illustrated throughout with photographs diagrams and exploded views. 11 pages of Drivers Instructions at front. 298 pages. 11 x 8 inches. A decent copy with a few flaws. The GMC CCKW was a highly successful series of off-road capable 2 12-ton 6 x 6 trucks built in large numbers between 1941 and 1945 for the U.S. Army. These trucks saw heavy service predominantly as cargo trucks in both World War II and the Korean War. They formed the backbone of the Red Ball Express that kept Allied armies supplied as they pushed eastward after the Normandy invasion. Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Company paperback