The GMC CCKW

armydriver wrote:Of course Band of Brothers does a much better job of showing CCKW's. especially in the scenes transporting the "troopers" to Bastogne.

My favorite part of HMV's in B.O.B. is when the scene first opens in Part #8...The Last Patrol. As the GI's are waiting to get off the trucks in Haguenau, France...Webster, returning from the Hospital, walks down a line of running CCKW's. looking for his old unit.

The familiar drum of that 270 engine in those tin can mufflers just makes me smile...... . Especially when watching it when it was Zero degrees F here in New Hampshire in January....

Bill

Great verbal picture Weasel nut. I love the sound of the 270 engine and the whine of the gears on the road. As a child I would stand in our front yard on U.S. highway 71 and watch and listen to the miles long convoys with hundreds of CCKWs, jeeps and Dodges , all full of soldiers . The whine of those transmissions stuck in my mind, along with the low gutteral sound of the 270 engines. Of course that was during WWII , a long time ago.
Band of Brothers probably has more scenes of CCKW's than any film other than the old Red Ball Express movie of 1948.