United States manufacturers produced more than 40,000 halftracks from 1933 until 1944. These mostly-armored vehicles moved artillery and infantry on rough terrain, snow and sand during World War II and Korea. Based on an adaptation of the White Scout Car, the US half-track vehicles of WII combined the cross-country ability of a fully-tracked vehicle with the road performance of a medium truck. Variations of these vehicles included prime movers, armored personnel carriers, mortar carriers and a wide range of heavily armed variants. Vehicles produced by Autocar, Diamond T and White were used by U.S. forces, while similar International Harvester-built vehicles were supplied to our Allies through Lend-Lease. Both the Army and Marines took them into battle. They left their mark in Africa, Europe, Pacific islands and Korea. When the U.S. entered Vietnam, French halftracks were already in country. Before retirement, the Israeli Army listed about 600 halftracks in March 2008. Argentina donated its final 24 M9s to Bolivia in 2006.

The half-track was one of the most plentiful families of American combat vehicles of World War II.

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Special Series. First Edition 2017. Eighth in the Special series of the World War 2 In Review journal. Pictorial overview covers the M2 Halftrack Car and M3 Halftrack series of vehicles. The halftrack was an armored vehicle used by the US, the British Empire and other Allies during World War II and the Cold War. Coverage includes many of the variants in M2, M3, M5, M9 Armored Personnel Carriers; M3, T48 GMC (Gun Motor Carriage) and T19, T30 HMC (Howitzer Motor Carriage) self-propelled guns; MMC (Mortar Motor Carriage); M13, M14, M16, M17 MGMC (Multiple Gun Motor Carriage) and M15 CGMC (Combination Gun Motor Carriage) anti-aircraft guns as well as experimental variants. Plus chapters on The 3rd Field Artillery Battalion (Provisional) in the Philippines 1941-1942; M3 Gun Motor Carriage; M16 Half-tracks in the Philippines: After Action Reports of the 209th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. 408 photos illustrations. Color printing on heavy coated stock.

Merriam Press World War 2 Album No. 8 First Edition, 2015 Over 400 photos and illustrations of the myriad of models and variants of the American half-tracks of World War II. The half-track was an armored vehicle used by the United States, the British Empire and the other Allies during World War II and the Cold War. This album covers: M2 Half-track Car and variants M3 Half-track and variants M5 Armored Personnel Carriers and variants M9 Armored Personnel Carriers and variants M3 75mm Gun Motor Carriage (GMC) T48 Gun Motor Carriage T19 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage (HMC) T30 75mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M4 Mortar Motor Carriage (MMC) M21 Mortar Motor Carriage M13 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage (MGMC) M14 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage M17 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage M15 Combination Gun Motor Carriage (CGMC) experimental vehicles and modifications and these articles: The 3rd Field Artillery Battalion (Provisional) in the Philippines 1941-1942 M3 Gun Motor Carriage M16 Half-tracks in the Philippines: After Action Reports of the 209th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion 402 photos 4 four-view drawing

With this latest supplement for Bolt Action, players now have all the information they need to field the varied military forces of the United States of America. Entering the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States immediately went to war on several fronts. In Europe and Africa, the Americans battled against the Germans and Italians, while in the Pacific the men of the Army and Marines faced the forces of Imperial Japan. This book allows players to choose from dozens of different troop types including Sherman tanks, Marine raiders, and paratroopers, and build a US force to fight in any theatre of the war.

A comprehensive, highly illustrated study of US tanks and other armoured vehicles used in World War II. The entry of the US into World War II provided the Allies with the industrial might to finally take the war to German and Japanese forces across the world. Central to this was the focus of the American military industrial complex on the manufacture of tanks and armoured fighting vehicles. Between 1939 and 1945, 88,140 tanks and 18,620 other armored vehicles were built – almost twice the number that Germany and Great Britain combined were able to supply. In this lavishly illustrated volume, armour expert Michael Green examines the dizzying array of machinery fielded by the US Army, from the famed M4 Sherman, M3 Stuart and M3 Lee through to the half-tracks, armored cars, self-propelled artillery, tank destroyers, armored recovery vehicles and tracked landing vehicles that provided the armoured fist that the Allies needed to break Axis resistance in Europe and the Pacific. Publishing in paperback for the first time and packed with historical and contemporary colour photography, this encyclopedic new study details the design, development, and construction of these vehicles, their deployment in battle and the impact that they had on the outcome of the war.