From: Steve & Jeanne Keith (cckw@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 10:28:12 PST
I do not believe that the deuces had anything special except for
maybe the grill cover and possibly a cab heater. Luckly the trucks
back then were closed cabs save for the command cars and Jeeps!
Steve AKA Dr Deuce
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From: "Bill Chambers" <bchambers@hoovers.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:19 PM
Subject: [MV] speaking of Snow
> History Channel had a great show on the building of the Alaskan highway
(oil
> can highway) during WW2.
> Actually went into the problems with permafrost and other conditions that
> met the military vehicles.
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> Question: Were there modifications made to the dueces and bulldozers and
> such to work in those conditions?
> If so, what would have been done to keep them from frozen death?
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> Also, has anyone been on it in the last several years? Sounds like a great
> historic drive, and was wondering if there is any remains, musuems, stops
> that I could plan for?
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> regards,
> Bill
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