10 July 1943. Off Licata, Sicily, a loaded American truck moves away from a transport ship under its own power. German planners expect its cargo to stop at the beach, but the vehicle enters the surf and keeps coming.

📊 Inside this documentary:
Why German port-denial doctrine depended on Allied cargo piling up at the shoreline
How the GMC DUKW-353 combined a standard 6×6 drivetrain with a welded displacement hull
Why a 7-man Coast Guard rescue changed the Army’s view of an amphibious truck
What roughly 100 DUKWs did for the 3rd Infantry Division during Operation Husky
How the loss of 12 of 13 gun-carrying DUKWs at Omaha exposed the vehicle’s limits
Why DUKWs moved cargo into demolished Cherbourg only 20 days after its surrender

📚 Sources:
The Transportation Corps: Operations Overseas, United States Army in World War II
Seventh Army Report of Operations in Sicily, Operation Husky
3rd Infantry Division after-action records for the Sicilian campaign
1st Engineer Special Brigade operational records
XIV Panzer Corps war diaries and Ic intelligence reports

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