Military Vehicle Charts

DUKW Amphibious 2 1/2 Ton Truck.

The military vehicle charts in this section have a large number of photos, organized by vehicle type (e.g. jeep, amphibious) and the specific model. On a chart page, click on the small photo of a model to see the full page of larger photos of the vehicle plus additional information and links.

The military vehicle charts include not only jeeps and trucks, but many other varieties of vehicles including motorcycles, artillery, light planes and helicopters, cranes and wreckers, and earthmoving equipment. If it had a life in the military, Olive-Drab.com will try to provide photos of it.

For more about MVs, this Olive-Drab.com page provides General information about Military Vehicles and this page is the start of the Guide to Owning Military Vehicles.

Be sure to visit MilitaryMashUp.com, a sister site to Olive-Drab.com, where you can browse and search over 5,000 photos of military jeeps, truck, tanks, artillery and much more.

Today in WW II: 22 May 1939 Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany sign the Pact of Steel, a declaration of trust and cooperation that also included secret provisions on military and economic matters.

Military Vehicle Charts

Line up of 1/4 ton 4x4 trucks (Willys MB or Ford GPW), aka the World War II jeep.

Official U.S. Government photos of military vehicles in actual service were used in the charts wherever possible, supplemented by museum photos and photos of restored vehicles. Many of the photos were contributed by private owners or others in the Olive-Drab.com military vehicles "family" to make this one of the most interesting and complete collections available anywhere. If this isn't enough, there are even more military vehicle photos in the Gallery of Historical Military Photos & Posters.

Find additional photos and hi-res versions of military vehicles of all types at the Olive-Drab Military Mashup:

The preposition equipment yard at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, CA, was brimming with vehicles before 2nd Brigade Combat Team broke the record during the fastest vehicle draw in the west, 23 September 2012. Soldiers signed for 717 pieces of equipment in a single day while on rotation there. HMMWVs form several rows with FMTVs and other vehicles in the background.

At the Ford River Rouge plant near Detroit, a jeep body, after being lowered, is securely fastened to the chassis and the headlights adjusted on a Ford GP prototype jeep, May 1941. About 4,500 Ford GPs were made before this model was combined with the Willys MA prototype to become the standard WW II jeep, the nearly identical Willys MB or Ford GPW.

Truck, Utility, Expanded Capacity, Enhanced, M1152, an un-armored HMMWV. The M1152 is a 2-door vehicle designed to replace the M1037/M1042 and M1097A2 variants. The M1152 can be configured as a cargo/troop carrier or as a shelter carrier.

Morris Model 855B-43 material handling crane. Courtesy: Government Liquidation LLC

Members of the 31st Security Police Squadron train with two V-100 Commando Cars (M706) at Tuy Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, 1968.

HMMWVs with improvised armor carry Soldiers of 2 Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division (Light), during a brief break on the way to a mission, Orgun-e, Afghanistan, 5 April 2004.

The collection keeps growing, so check back from time to time. If you have a photo or two to contribute, please contact Olive-Drab.com.

Click on the link in this table to go to the chart for each type of vehicle. The list of charts is also available at the Olive-Drab.com Directory page.

These charts are intended to cover the most common vehicles of interest to visitors to Olive-Drab, plus other vehicles as available. Not every vehicle is covered nor do we have the best possible photo for each one. Some of these vehicles have a number of variants which are not all shown. If you need a very complete resource for the "M" and "G" numbers of U.S. vehicles use the book "Army Vehicle Identification Numbers" (4th edition, 1994) available from Portrayal Press. Other books cataloging Military Vehicles are listed at the bottom of the page.

M-4 Sherman Tank Production, July 1942.

If you have any other (or better) photos available, think a photo is mis-identified, or have other suggestions which would improve this service, please contact Olive-Drab.com.

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