Vetchinkin’s Tracked Amphibious Boat – G.K.A. 1500 Soviet Union (1942) Amphibious Light Tank/Armored Personnel Carrier – None Built The idea of amphibious armored vehicles appeared concurrently with the creation of the first tanks. With the first prototypes appearing at the end of WWI (the...
This gallery also houses reconstructed Army training aircraft, including a PT-19, PT-22 and PT-26. There is also an anti-aircraft halftrack, a CCKWX troop carrier (better known as a Deuce and a half truck), and a Cushman Model 32 Scooter. One Minnesota firm that got its foot in ...
Civilian-owned Cubs joined the war effort as part of the newly formed Civil Air Patrol (CAP), patrolling the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast in a constant search for German U-boats and survivors of U-boat attacks. Piper developed a military variant ("All we had to do," Bill Jr. is ...