Germans Called This "Boat-Truck" A Joke — Until It Saved The Logistics War In The Pacific
Автор: WW2 Reports
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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.
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