A modified CCKW truck being used to pick up large pieces of lumber at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in August 1944

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
Description: 

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. A modified CCKW truck being used to pick up large pieces of lumber. "2-1/2 ton six-by truck turned into boom truck using front winch, Cape Gloucester, New Britain." Cape Gloucester, New Britain. August 1944

Image Information

Accession Number: 
Date: 
1944-08-
Location: 
Hometown: 
Branch: 
Campaign / Event: 
POW / KIA: 
Collection Level: 
Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
Geography: 
Gloucester, Cape
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Vehicles, military--American--New Britain
Trucks--American--New Britain