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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 .
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 ...
The M29 Weasel (Studebaker Weasel), whilst originally designed as a snow vehicle, operated successfully in an amphibious role by the addition of front and rear floats. The basic vehicle will float but its bow is square so the additional floats add stability and load carrying capacity.
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 ...
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
M76 crossing paddy fields. It was designed and built by Pontiac Motor Division in the late 1940s and intended as a replacement for the M29 Weasel.It entered service with the USMC in the early 1950s and many saw action in the Vietnam War.
M29 Weasel – American light tracked vehicle; Raupenschlepper Ost – German light tracked ... Images of ex-Argentinean T16 carriers for sale (retrieved 2014-04-05)
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.