Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
What percentage of U.S. Army trucks in World War One were all-wheel drive?
I'm interested in what they took to France, also all-wheel drive trucks sold to the Allies. I know that FWD was one American manufacturer.
Histories of World War One show the U.S. Army making effective use of trucks to shift forces. George C. Marshall, on Pershing's staff, planned these moves. They were not on the scale of the motor marches of 1944, maybe a couple of divisions at a time, but they did happen. And yes, there were all-wheel drive motor vehicles then; they preceded the war. I am not saying the Army was fully motorized; they did use horses and mules. But they also used trucks, and that is what I am interested in.
I am well aware of the limitations of YA, "MAJ Kev." One uses all the resources at hand. If no answer is forthcoming I select "No Best Answer" and move on. Do not waste people's time with such less than useless posts, unless you are willing to work my job and pay for a round-trip ticket from Seattle to Washington D.C. while I go do research.
3 Answers
- conranger1Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Most supplies were moved by Mule or horse and wagon after delivery to rail depots.
Motorized military transportation came into use in WW2.
- MAJ KevLv 78 years ago
Dude - do you know just ow detailed your question is? This is not something that is just going to pop up from a YA answer. The kind od historians who might actually know this answer do not hang out on YA. You are going to have to go do some National Archive-level research to determine this.
EDIT: actually, it is not wasting anyone's time. I am just watching TV and surfing around the net. You are wasting your own time by asking a question that really has no chance of being answered here on YA. As far as paying for your ticket - not sure why I am paying you to do your own research - and on top of that, you don;t actually have to go to the NA in order to get an answer. You might want to look in to how distance research is done with the NA and similar agencies.
That said - how about this: find out all the different models of the type of vehicle you are looking for, then find out how many of each was sent to France for US use - and there you have your answer.
BTW: there were no "couple of divisions at a time" being moved. That sort of capability to move multiple divisions at a time by motor transport did not exist
- ?Lv 78 years ago
Very few mechanized vehicles existed in WWI. And 4 wheel drive was probably not around.
