Logistics and the Vehicles of WW II

By land, by sea, by the air. Everything had to get somewhere, yesterday.

Types or trucks: Deuce and a halfs, five tons. DC3's. Freighters, hteir size, weights. From the smallest to the largest between 1938 - 1946.

 

Liberty ships. Ugly and slow, but readily available in large numbers. The ease with which they were built ensured that Allied merchant shipping losses could be made good. Definitely a vital factor in the Allied victory in both Europe and the Pacific.

 

Opel Blitz truck.Workhorse of the German army.

 

Absolutely! Here is a web site address for anyone to ponder through.

http://www.angelfire.com/in/shiphistory/libvicship.html

 

Lend lease trucks.

http://www.o5m6.de/main.html

One thing though, I felt it important to post this as it would seem that this person has put a heck of a lot of effort into this site. I do not believe this to be required since I have only offered the link to this fantastic page, however I do believe it to be a question of honourable intent.

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And an excellent site it is, too. He had only one error that I noticed: While the first Liberty ships were named after famous Americans, as the site said, they ran out of such names pretty fast and from about mid or late 1942 onwards the ships were named after merchant sailors who had been KIA.

 

Construction methods

In the third posting of this article there is the start of a refernece to Hog Island freighters built at the end of WW1.

http://p069.ezboard.com/falltheworldsba ... =773.topic

 

We had an entire WW II Victory ship, that was built here in Vancouver BC, Canada, during the war, but now we only have the stern because of the cost of storage. Another great oppurtunity for Canada to keep part of its war history down the drain.

 

It's about as bad here, Poodle. The USA has exactly *one* Liberty ship in existence, which has been, I am happy to say, fully restored and takes tourist on short cruises. But a lot has been lost over the years, starting with the carriers SARATOGA and ENTERPRISE, which survived WW2 in the Pacific to great glory, only to be used as an A-bomb target and scrapped by a Japanese company, respectively. NONE of the INDEPENDENCE-class light carriers has been preserved, nor have any of the CVEs which did so much to win the war at sea. And as far as I know, not one single WW2 cruiser of any type has been preserved. Nor were any of the Pearl Harbor battleships (I don't count ARIZONA for obvious reasons). And the British are even worse, for not one of their WW2 carriers or battleships was preserved. People just have no sense of history. :angry:

 

Yeah, all we have is a Cruiser.

I recently went to Cuxhaven (Germany) and in the dockyard there is a type 21 U-boat, and an E-boat!

Sorry - way off topic.

How about the humble horse?
Still providing a huge chunk of German logistic capability throughout WW2.

 

There are two Liberty ships that have been restored. The Brown on the east coast and the Jermie O'brain in San Francisco. We also have three Victory ships of which two are restored and the Red Oak Vivtory that I work on that is in Richmond Ca less than a mile from were she was built. If you have a couple of millon we will be cruising soon since what we realy need is some in a drydock at a shipyard.
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I agree, we as the electorate, in any country, must continue to remind our government reps that we must remember the past, not set the stage for our children to repeat it.

 

The electorate is too busy squabbling over social issues and whatever else is fashionable at the time. :roll: