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The M29 Weasel is a World War II tracked vehicle designed for operation in snow. [1] Built by Studebaker , Weasels were also used in sandy, muddy, and desert terrains, including towing loads over terrain wheeled vehicles could not negotiate as in the U.S. Marine invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa .
English: Weasels were WWII tracked vehicles designed for use in snow. The last ones were used by the French Polar Expeditions, Dumont d'Urville Station, until 1993. The last ones were used by the French Polar Expeditions, Dumont d'Urville Station, until 1993.
M29 or M-29 may refer to: M29 cluster bomb, a World War II era cluster bomb; M29 mortar, an 81 millimeter calibre mortar; M29 Weasel, a United States Army tracked vehicle used in World War II; M29-class monitor, a class of Royal Navy warships; M29 highway (Russia), a road connecting Krasnodar to Chechnya and Dagestan
The Vostok traverse was a 3000 kilometre four-month trip across Antarctica undertaken by ANARE the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition in 1962. Using two bright red painted 1943 World War II M29 Weasel tracked vehicles and two 1950 D4 Caterpillar Inc. tractors the 6-man expedition left Wilkes Base on the coast for the Russian Vostok Station deep in the Antarctic interior.
M29 Weasel carrier, cargo, full-track, 1/2-ton, amphibious (G179) M30 cargo carrier (G158) based on M4 Sherman; M31 tank recovery vehicle (M3 Grant) M32 recovery vehicle (M4 Sherman) M32A1 recovery vehicle, medium, 16 1 ⁄ 2 inch full-track M32A1B1 recovery vehicle, medium, 23 3 ⁄ 4 inch full-track (M4A1 chassis) M32A1B2 recovery vehicle ...
French armored units developed the use of amphibious tracked vehicles in Indochina: The amphibious C model of the M29 Weasel (armed either with FM1924/29, Bren or Browning M1919 machine guns and with 57mm M18A1 recoilless guns), [10] LVT-4s (equipped with two M2 and two M1919 machine guns, and sometimes equipped with 40mm Bofors guns [11] or 57 ...
Designed by Pacific Car & Foundry and built by Blaw-Knox, it was a lightweight amphibious cargo carrier designed to replace the M29 Weasel and the M76 Otter; 197 were built for the USMC. [53] M151 'MUTT' 1 ⁄ 4-ton vehicle 4x4: 1960
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