Studebaker WW2 history

[Mike K]

https://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/bits...=1&isAllowed=y

[m606paz]

Very interesting read!
Thanks for sharing!

[Mike Cecil]

Did International and GMC manufacture US6 trucks? -page 8.

Mike

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Did International and GMC manufacture US6 trucks? -page 8.

Mike

As far as I know REO was the only other maker. Inter and GMC had their own 6x6 and 6x4 trucks to build.

[Mike Cecil]

Thanks Richard, that's what I thought.

Mike

[Mike K]

More Studebaker military history
https://idaoffice.org/posts/military...of-studebaker/

The thesis has some holes in it for sure .

"In the early years of the war, most of the US6s were shipped to the Allies in Europe." I thought that US6 trucks are rare in Europe these days with few ever going to the Allies in Europe ? Does anybody know more.



AND "Once the United States had entered the war, the US6 was used on all fronts." Not true, no US6 trucks were used in the SWPA as far as I know . The Australian US6 deliveries were very late in the war they and were stored away until the early 1960s .

The thesis states " In March of 1941 Studebaker started its official war production after signing a contract with the United States government to build US6 trucks. Three months later, the company was rolling out the first of these newly designed cargo vehicles."

But the Military victories of Studebaker article states "The production of the US6 series began in January 1942, and by the end of the year, Studebaker produced 4,000 cars a month."