Museum Virtual Tour Page #3
There are also a lot of trucks at the Museum and this is one of them. Officially, it's called "Truck, Cargo, 2½ Ton, 6X6, M135Cdn". But to the people that drove these vehicles, they knew them as "Deuce-and-a-half's" or "Deuce" for short.
This particular vehicle was built by GMC in 1953 and served in the Canadian Armed Forces until 1984. It has been painted in the colours it would have worn as a gun tractor for D Battery, 2 RCHA in Norway in 1982. D Battery was Canada's ACE Mobile Force artillery unit deployed on the northern flank of NATO in Norway. During the Cold War, vehicles like this one served in a multitude of roles in support of NATO forces. And as you can see, the white camouflage would have been quite useful in the snowy country of Norway during the winter months.
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