US Army DUKW Equipped With Scaling Ladders For US 2nd Ranger Battalion D-Day Attack - Pointe-Du-Hoc 1944

[Richard Stone]

The attached short article discusses the US Army DUKWs (amphibious trucks) that were equipped with scaling ladders to aid the 2nd Ranger Battalion D-Day attack on Pointe-Du-Hoc.

The article was printed in the April 1949 edition of the USA professional military reference magazine ‘Military Review’.

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[Sheldrake]

Here is a follow up article about the drivers I wrote in 2017. https://www.theobservationpost.com/blog/?p=727
This was also printed in the Autumn 2017 issue of Sustainer, the journal of the Royal Logiostic Corps