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Today in WW II: 23 May 1943 Adm. Döntiz, commander of the German Navy, calls off the Battle of the Atlantic, recognizing that the U-boat is no longer an effective weapon.  More ↓
23 May 1944 Allied breakout from Anzio beachhead.
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M-26 Heavy Transporter 6x6 Tractor, circa 1944. Usually pulls the M-15 Semi-Trailer for transport/retrieval of an M-4 Sherman tank.
1953 REO Motors Inc, 2 1/2 ton cargo truck, M35 with winch, s/n 129912, 5 speed manual transmission, with LDT 465 multi fuel engine, odometer 18185, hour meter 0560, with HIAB 1966 hydraulic hoist mounted to bed, Mfg no 3917, speed loader model 177, capacity unknown, with extensions for hoist. Courtesy: Government Liquidation LLC.
After a 1972 Army RFP for a new Infantry Fighting Vehicle, FMC Corporation developed this vehicle, the XM723, loosly based on the USMC Amtrac, rather than the M113. The Bradley Fighting Vehicle was ultimately derived from the XM723 prototype in the form of the XM2 and XM3 Bradley prototypes, standardized in the 1980s. XM723 operated with a crew of 3 while carrying 9 Infantry. The turret main gun was a 20mm cannon with a 7.62mm coaxial machine gun. The hull was laminated steel/aluminium armor. Photo at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, circa 1976.
POL dump set up on the beach during D-Day training exercises at Slapton Sands, England, April 1944. A truck-mounted crane is loading jerry cans into a DUKW amphibious cargo truck.
M-551A1 Sheridan armored reconnaissance vehicle from Company A, 3d Bn, 73d Armor (82d Airborne Division) guarding the main gate of Tallil air base in southern Iraq, 3 March 1991.
Vehicles and men of the Canadian Army form a convoy in France, October 1944.

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