M35 2½-ton Cargo Truck

The M35 2½-ton cargo truck is a six-by-six military transport truck built for the United States Army beginning in the early 1950s, widely known by its informal nickname the Deuce and a Half, describing its rated cargo capacity, and produced by several manufacturers over a production run that extended for decades. Built with all-wheel drive and a simple, rugged cargo bed usable for troops, supplies or as a base for various specialized truck bodies, it became the standard medium logistics truck of the United States military through the Vietnam War and well beyond, and was also supplied to many allied nations. As an unarmed logistics vehicle rather than a combat vehicle, the M35 filled the same troop and cargo transport role that the earlier GMC CCKW had filled in the Second World War.