[Milsurplus] ANTRACK

[Edward Greeley]

Believe that should be the AmTrac, official designation LVT (Landing 
Vehicle, Tracked). As the common name implies, it was an amphibious 
tracked vehicle rather like a "swimming tank" but used primarily to 
transport troops and/or materiel ashore.


Hue Miller wrote:
> I was last weekend putting away some books and had a brief look at an 
> article in a war years or just slightly
> after, "Electronic Industries" magazine. There was an article on the Battle 
> of the Bulge talking about the
> Antrack maintaining US Army communications out of the surrounded village of 
> Bastogne, Belgium. Article
> identified it as AN/TRC-3, IIRC.  Internet sez this comprises 2 TRC-1 rec, 2 
> trans, 3 antenna kits, 3 PE-75.
> Article seems to say only one truck; its trailer was hit and destroyed, but 
> truck station continued throughout
> the encirclement.
> Or is this already common knowledge  here, from the Green Books or other 
> Scripture?
> My father was in some kind of mobile repair unit supporting the infantry, 
> under Patton's command,
> at that time.
> One of the best known radio collectors of the antique radio club in Seattle 
> was Art Corbus. I learned he
> had been in a tank recovery unit during this part of the war. I only heard 
> him mention a couple sentences
> about the times; wished I had tried to draw him out a little more on it.
> -Hue Miller