An illustration of the chassis and powertrain of the U.S. Army’s M5 halftrack from War Department Technical Manual TM 9-1707B, December 1943. War Department Technical Manual TM 9-1707B, December 1943.
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A diagram of the bogie assembly from the M5 halftrack illustrating the major bogie assembly components. (War Department Technical Manual TM 9-1707B, December 1943.) Bogie Assembly (War Department Technical Manual TM 9-1707B...
A jeep and a halftrack towing a howitzer lead a convoy of vehicles ashore on a floating causeway from the Mulberry harbor at Omaha Beach, June 1944. (U.S. Army Signal Corps Collection, U.S. National Archives.) Omaha Beach...
A column of halftracks waits for orders during training at Fort Knox, Kentucky in June 1942. (U.S. National Archives.)
Allied tanks and halftracks pass through the Arc de Triomphe and parade down the Champs-Élysées after the liberation of Paris. (Library of Congress.)
Closeup of halftrack suspensions and tracks at Holabird Ordnance Depot, Baltimore, Maryland. (Library of Congress.)
A halftrack on guard duty watches as a flight of Republic P-47 Thunderbolts of the 318th Fighter Group return to their airfield in the Okinawa Islands after a strike on Japan. (U.S. Air Force Photo)
Destroyed German halftrack near Porto Farina, Tunisia. (Library of Congress.)
German SdKfz. 250 light halftrack destroyed in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge. (U.S. Air Force Photograph)
Halftrack of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division “Big Red One” moves forward along the muddy road in the Hurtgen Forest in February 1945. (U.S. Army Photograph, T/5 Edward Norbuth.)