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GMC DUKW-353, 2.5-ton, 6x6, Amphibian Truck Beside the light Ford GPA ¼-ton 4x4, the DUKW was the other amphibian truck supplied to the Soviet Union during the war, with a total of 586 arriving there, probably from late 1944 on. Based on a modified GMC AFKWX-353 long-wheelbase truck chassis, the body, designed by Sparkman & Stephens, was made of light sheet steel with an internal metal framework. The »Duck«, as it was popularly called, went into quantity production in Pontiac, Michigan from 1943 to 1945 with a total of 21,147 DUKW's built overall. The truck seems to have met the Red Army requirements quite well as an almost exact copy was produced after the war by the domestic industry, the ZiL-485.
Going ashore, probably in Karelia in late summer 1944 |
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The "Winter Duck" : Entering East Prussia with Konstantin Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front in January 1945 |
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On the march during the Manchurian campaign, August 1945 |
May 1,1947, Leningrad parade |
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