timerover51

I know of a US Marine Corps M3 Stuart abandoned on what used to be called Arundel Island in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, and at least on Japanese Model 95 Light Tank on a sunken freighter off of Vella Lavella Island in the same area. The Stuart is stranded in a swamp, so not that easy to get at, but the Japanese tank is readily available in the cargo hold of the sunken freighter. Hard to say if more are out there.

I will take a look in my US Handbook on German Explosive Ordnance and see what I can find. Looks like it might be a ballistic cap for a 105 round. There were no apparent threads on the item? And what was the object made of that appears to be inside of it?

Sorry to give that idea, but I doubt if it was one of the Transcontinental Convoy trucks, but I will check. As I periodically go to DC for research at the Archives, I will check to see if I can find out how many were built by looking through the Ordnance and Quartermaster Corps records.

I found the following quote in THE ARMIES OF INDUSTRY II. OUR NATION'S MANUFACTURE OF MUNITIONS FOR A WORLD IN ARMS 1917-1918, by Benedict Crowell, published by Yale University Press in 1921. Crowell was the United States Assistant Secretary of War in charge of the United States Army Munitions Program. This is a more popular account of his book on America's Munitions 1917-1918, which was his official report on the Army's war production published by the United States Government Printing Office in 1919. There are chapters on vehicle and tank production in both volumes, which can be located at archive.org for those interested in reading more about U.S. production. Based on this, I would say that total production was 80. The five experimental trucks and the 75 production vehicles. Note: The 1st Division Museum in Wheaton, Illinois is in the process of restoring one of the Liberty "B" trucks to an operating condition.

Greetings to All. My name is Dale, and presently I reside about an hour north of Chicago, Illinois, right near Lake Michigan. I am in my 60s, am retired from the US Army, and presently teach military history part-time. I discovered this site from a link on another web forum that I am on, where I do a lot of posting of military information that I have acquired over the years. I did my Army service in Alaska, so I know what minus 65 degree Fahrenheit is like, with no wind chill, and what that does to vehicles. Note, do NOT try to change a tire at that temperature on the side of the road. While I do not own any former military vehicles, my favorite one, which I keep trying to convince my better half that we need (with lack of success so far), is the US amphibious truck of World War 2, the DUKW. Aside from its use in World War 2 and the Korean War, it would still be quite useful in some areas of the World.