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1919 "Trans-Continental Motor Truck" [1] The 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy was a long distance convoy (described as a Motor Truck Trip with a "Truck Train" [1]) carried out by the U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps that drove over 3,000 mi (4,800 km) on the historic Lincoln Highway from Washington, D.C., to Oakland, California and then by ferry over to end in San Francisco.
The 1919 Air Service Transcontinental Recruiting Convoy [32] was a "mobile army post" [33] of over 1/2 mile length to support 13 aircraft from Hazelhurst Field to California beginning August 14, 1919. [34]
The five paragraph order or five paragraph field order is a style of organizing information about a military situation for a unit in the field. It is an element of Canadian Army, United States Army, United States Marine Corps and United States Navy Seabees small unit tactics, and similar order styles are used by military groups around the world.
By 1915, the US Army was using trucks tactically. When the US joined World War I in April, 1917 it began purchasing trucks in larger numbers. Early trucks were often designed for both military and commercial use, later military-specific designs were built. Since 1940 the US military has ordered over 3,000,000 tactical trucks.
ISBN 978-1-63068-540-9 (Amazon.com)published 2014.A chronicle of the US military presence in Berlin. Bykofsky, Joseph and Harold Larson. The Transportation Corps: Operations overseas (covers WW2) Center of Military History, United States Army, 2003 671 pages Google link ; Grover, David H. US Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II.
The claim: Video shows military convoy traveling to US southern border. A Jan. 22 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes a TikTok video that shows a convoy of tanks and other military ...
A convoy of U.S. Army trucks in Hawaii. A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling together for mutual support and protection.Often, a convoy is organized with armed defensive support and can help maintain cohesion within a unit.
Corporal Charles H. Johnson of the 783rd Military Police Battalion waves on a Red Ball Express motor convoy rushing priority materiel to the forward areas.. American logistics in the Northern France campaign played a key role in the Allied invasion of northwest Europe during World War II.