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Today in WW II: 20 May 1940 German General Rudolf Veiel's 2nd Panzer division reaches the English Channel at Noyelles, splitting the Allied defense.  More ↓
20 May 1940 Largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, opens in Poland. Before liberation in 1945, about 1.1 million people died there, 90 percent Jews.
20 May 1941 Germans launch Operation Mercury, the Battle of Crete, the first airborne invasion in history.
20 May 1942 First African-American seamen taken into the United States Navy.
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Chassis of the White Halftrack with White Super Power Engine, US Army Ordnance Dept., June 1941.
M-274 Light Cargo, Personnel and Weapons Carrier with 106mm Recoilless Rifle mounted. Marines of the 106mm platoon, H&S Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, prepare to fire on an enemy tank during excerise Express Charger, Camp Lejeune, NC, 1974.
The first Willys MB jeep delivered to the US Army, Holabird Quartermaster Depot, Baltimore, MD, 16 October 1941. Hood number is USA W-2031575.
Amphibian truck, DUKW, 2 1/2-ton 6x6 (the Duck) standardized in October 1942, proved to be an extremely valuable piece of equipment. It could operate on land or water and was often used to bring supplies ashore where there were no ports or harbors available for larger craft. Supplies loaded from ships onto the Ducks could unload at the supply dumps, saving the extra handling involved when lighters or similar craft were used. This vehicle could carry approximately 25 men and their equipment or a 5,000-pound payload.
Upgraded HMMWV is representative of the up to 20,000 lb GVW wheeled vehicles (10,000 lb max axle) used extensively by the US Army.
Autocar U-7144-T Tractor, 4-ton, 4x4 (G-510), Holabird Quartermaster Depot, 20 August 1941.

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