FOV801201A Forces of Valor GMC CCKW 353B Truck w/ 1609 Type cab, M37 ring, & sheet metal cab, U.S 1st Infantry Division, LST Ship Ramp, Weymouth, May 1st 1944

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FOV801201A
Forces of Valor 1/32nd scale
GMC CCKW 353B Truck w/ 1609 Type cab
M37 ring & sheet metal cab
U.S 1st Infantry Division
LST Ship Ramp
Weymouth
May 1st 1944

RRP  £90.00

Model Description

Forces Of Valor 1/32nd scale FOV801201A GMC CCKW 353B Truck w/ 1609 Type cab, M37 ring, & sheet metal cab, U.S 1st Infantry Division, LST Ship Ramp, Weymouth, May 1st 1944. Available to order at Flying Tigers.

 

The GMC CCKW, also known as “Jimmy”, or the G-508 by its Ordnance Supply Catalog number, 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.

Of the almost 2.4 million trucks that the U.S. Army bought between 1939 and December 1945, across all payload weight classes, some 812,000, or just over one third, were 2+1⁄2-ton trucks. GMC’s total production of the CCKW and its variants, including the 21⁄2-ton, 6×6, amphibian DUKW, and the 6×4, 5-ton (on-road) CCW-353, amounted to some 572,500 units – almost a quarter of the total WW II U.S. truck production, and 70 percent of the total 2+1⁄2-ton trucks. GMC’s total of ~550,000 purely 6×6 models, including the DUKW, formed the overwhelming majority of the ~675,000 six by six 2+1⁄2-ton trucks, and came in less than 100,000 shy of the almost 650,000 World War II jeeps. Additionally, GM built over 150,000 units of the CCKW’s smaller brother, the 1+1⁄2-ton, 4×4 Chevrolet G506, at the same factory.

The GMC CCKW began to be phased out once the M35 series trucks were first deployed in the 1950s, but remained in active U.S. service until the mid-1960s. Eventually, the M35 series, originally developed by REO Motors, succeeded the CCKW as the U.S. Army’s standard 2+1⁄2-ton, 6×6 cargo truck.

RRP  £90.00

Weight 750 g
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